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Well if we're going to go this route, no one put a gun to the girl's head either. She just didn't want to work night shift at 7/11 for $10-$15 an hour. In Fort
by cbozeman 6y ago
Well if we're going to go this route, no one put a gun to the girl's head either.
She just didn't want to work night shift at 7/11 for $10-$15 an hour. In Fort Worth, I've seen night shift "supervisors" for the convenience store where I usually stop for gas being offered $18-$22, starting salary. With 1 year experience. Yes, that's a shitty job, on a shitty shift, and the pay is nothing to write home about at $36,000 - $44,000 a year, but for someone with nothing more than a high school degree, and clearly a tremendous lack of applicable skills, it isn't terrible.
If these women want to do porn instead of slaving away at Walmart, hey, more power to them. I don't begrudge you your choice, but don't act like there's no alternative. Entirely too many people make the claim that "there are no jobs for me!" when what they mean is, "There aren't any jobs that I want to do, I'm not supposed to be a janitor, I'm supposed to be a TikTok star!!"
That's the big fucking lie our society has told people for the past 40+ years. Most of us, even most of us in high positions in respected companies, are easily replaceable cogs.
A lot of people were very concerned about Apple's future when Steve Jobs died. Looking at the M1 chip, it seems like Tim Cook and Apple will be just fine.
- thatcat 6y agoYea no one wants to work at walmart and no one wants to shop at walmart, but hey look at how many walmarts there are. When people complain that there are no jobs they mean there are no meaningful careers, not that there aren't enough walmarts to work at.
- cbozeman 6y agoYeah, according to Keynes we were all supposed to have 15 hour work weeks by now... makes you wonder what exactly went wrong.
- Johnjonjoan 6y agoKeynes forgot about greed. He thought after making workers 2.5x more efficient the machine would be happy with still making 1x the product.
- cbozeman 6y agoI really hope this isn't the ultimate answer, because if so, that's extremely disappointing.