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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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@danzyl66
My own point is that peoples' attempts to institute limits around low-tier jobs might end up in a point where I'm hungry, I need food, you're willing to pay me $7/hr but can't afford more, and we're legally prohibited from entering an exchange that would benefit us both.
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