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People trying to better for themselves is not them being entitiled. There is nothing noble about working hard for bad pay and in bad conditions just for the sak
by ubercow13 5y ago
People trying to better for themselves is not them being entitiled. There is nothing noble about working hard for bad pay and in bad conditions just for the sake of being a hard worker.
If people are choosing other options instead of going back to their shit jobs, and the system isn't providing good enough opportunities for enough people that's a failing of the system, not of those people for lacking a strong Protestant work ethic and not rolling over and letting themselves be exploited.
Anyway the video is about these people choosing to work for themselves or being otherwise entrepreneurial, not being entitled and lazy like you are implying.
- crazydoggers 5y agoSo who does the hard jobs? Who slaughters the cows. Who picks the vegetables in 100 degrees. It sure is damn noble. Someone has to do it, or we all have to. And I give those people amazing props for doing those things. Many of us have either done those jobs and taken pride, or have family who have in order to better the lives of those children. Saying that work is not noble is demeaning to those who worked for your current standard of living.
- ubercow13 5y ago>Saying that work is not noble is demeaning to those who worked for your current standard of living. The video is about people choosing better opportunities for themselves. If there aren't people to do those hard jobs, then those jobs need to compete with the opportunities these people are choosing instead, for example through higher pay. Saying these people should choose worse work, for the benefit of others (eg. business owners), by appealing to some nebulous concept of nobility is exploitative.
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- MrStonedOne 5y agoNobody until those employers start paying enough and stop making the job harder for the sake of policies that only serve the employers interests. can't get workers to work hard 8 hours a day doing hard labor, maybe add more breaks than the minimum you are legally required to? Or maybe stop suspending the workers next two shifts because they were 5 minutes late from traffic 1 too many times? Maybe consider that threatening to fire workers if they don't work late or overtime isn't productive? Maybe stop paying minimum wage which hasn't risen with inflation or rent prices and increase your prices out to compensate or consider that if baseline worker wages have risen slower than inflation, but management's wages has risen faster than inflation, you've had to do so off the back of your workers ability to have spending money outside of barely living.
- crazydoggers 5y agoGreat goals! Now start motivating people around you to ask for those things, vote on those issues, unionize their workplaces. Work half as hard as the generations that came before did to enshrine our current labor laws. Don’t just complain on YouTube videos. If the video had a coherent call to action and clear headed vision that’s one thing. But in reality a lot of it is clouded by misunderstandings of the job market and the world around them.
- pg_1234 5y agoRight now there is a more effective strategy - just - do - nothing - wait out the exploitative employers until they come begging, and then dictate terms ... just as they used to.
- crazydoggers 5y agoI suggest read some history to get a sense of why that makes no sense. And this is the entitlement I speak of. The world is not going to come begging you for anything. If you don’t stand to for yourself. Make the best of each situation, then the world isn’t going to owe or provide you anything. You reap what you sow.
- crazydoggers 5y agoWhy do you think they will come begging you for anything. What power do you hold in the situation, given that their is not actually a labor shortage.