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I have worked off and on with an overseas engineering company. The department I work through has a secretary who left his South Asian home and family to work t

I have worked off and on with an overseas engineering company. The department I work through has a secretary who left his South Asian home and family to work there in basic accomodations sending home every overtime hour he could get his hands on. One of the best days I can remember in an office is being introduced to his son the recent engineering graduate who just joined the company. Following the success of that young mans career as he went to better and better jobs makes me smile and shields me a little from the over woke virtue signaling brigade of people who probably mean well but tend to let their outrage at a problem get in the way of actually fixing it.

vore 4y ago
Your solution to fixing the problem is... hoping you have a successful child?
- jimmySixDOF 4y ago
  not sure where I proposed a solution but if there is one, I can tell you it will not involve crying out exploitation when someone offers an impoverished person the opportunity to pull themselves up somewhere better in life, just because you think it's unjust for that poverty they live in to exist in the first place but yet also have no working alternative.
  - vore 4y ago
    Sidestepping your culture war flaming, this is just a race to the bottom. Are we supposed to give employers are free pass to work someone to the bone just because they're poor? Surely we can also acknowledge that, that while it's unfortunate that having a sweatshop job is often better than no job, employers should not treat their employees like shit either.
    - jimmySixDOF 4y ago
      agreed.
- imtringued 4y ago
  Do you think school is a lottery?
  - vore 4y ago
    Of course. Quality of education highly depends on your family's economic background -- the worst off you are, the lower your chances of leaving poverty are. We can cherry-pick the success stories for those who did escape the poverty trap but in aggregate it doesn't look so great.

vore 4y ago

Your solution to fixing the problem is... hoping you have a successful child?

jimmySixDOF 4y ago
not sure where I proposed a solution but if there is one, I can tell you it will not involve crying out exploitation when someone offers an impoverished person the opportunity to pull themselves up somewhere better in life, just because you think it's unjust for that poverty they live in to exist in the first place but yet also have no working alternative.
- vore 4y ago
  Sidestepping your culture war flaming, this is just a race to the bottom. Are we supposed to give employers are free pass to work someone to the bone just because they're poor? Surely we can also acknowledge that, that while it's unfortunate that having a sweatshop job is often better than no job, employers should not treat their employees like shit either.
  - jimmySixDOF 4y ago
    agreed.
imtringued 4y ago
Do you think school is a lottery?
- vore 4y ago
  Of course. Quality of education highly depends on your family's economic background -- the worst off you are, the lower your chances of leaving poverty are. We can cherry-pick the success stories for those who did escape the poverty trap but in aggregate it doesn't look so great.