When I was poor and going hungry, I was willing to take any job. I applied for everything - including a job that involved putting rubber boots on and standing in sewage all day for minimum wage. I don't really understand the desire to eliminate 'bad jobs'.
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I'm glad that there were 'low tier' jobs present to meet me at my worst - they were an *active improvement* from my state of hunger. When people talk about trying to get rid of low tier jobs, I imagine this as removing options for me when I needed them.
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This includes sex work! Lots of people view 'survival sex work' - sex work people do because they'd go hungry otherwise - as coercive or bad. I don't view that as coercive, much as I don't view myself as having been coerced into applying for a job in a literal sea of shit.
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Well wouldnt you have rather earn the same wage without standing in sewage?
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I wish I could live in the "All we have to do is automate everything and give everyone free everthing!" bubble mindset. Seems amazing comfortable
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To be fair I think we should aim really high. I think we'll one day be capable of a world where people legit can live comfortably without having to work and I like trying to move in that direction. I think a lot of efforts to move in this direction are very misguided, however.
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How about we stop letting people go hungry just because they don't have a job. Jobs should not be necessary for survival.
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i understand the desire to eliminate 'bad jobs' by use of technology so focus could be placed on something else. it's assisting the people whos 'bad job' was eliminated that nobody wants to do.
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These bad jobs are often the result of it being cheaper to have a human stand in shit than to design and build a machine that does the task. Machines will take over many or most of them over time purely on economics.
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