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The amount of meaningful, well-paid work in our society is also shrinking at a rapid rate. Expecting everyone to just become baristas and waiters (which is wha
by kranke155 4y ago
The amount of meaningful, well-paid work in our society is also shrinking at a rapid rate.
Expecting everyone to just become baristas and waiters (which is what's happening in the UK at least) is just pushing people towards a giant mental health crisis.
Without manufacturing there is no middle-class, and the West has abdicated its manufacturing. That's led to the bifurcation of our society in two halves - the well-to-do service workers who have accumulated valuable knowledge, and the people serving them. I don't think it's a healthy outcome.
- fundad 4y agoService work can be elevated to a living wage career since we depend on it and there is so much capital tied up in restaurants and retail. Of course people will say they don’t want to pay more but we’re already paying enough to support higher wages. Factory owners didn’t want to pay much either so we don’t have good-paying factory work. VCs and CEOs don’t want to pay much for programmers either and we see where they’re taking the industry for the next generation.