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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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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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Many of the bad jobs are dangerous and poorly paid. When you were standing in shit it's good you didn't get a disease or infection - my guess is that the job didn't come with health care benefits despite the risks.

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My main objection to bad jobs is that they pay very poorly for the risks or working conditions and management is often taking further advantage of the workers. Unpaid over time, wage and tip theft, mental, physical or sexual abuse.

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Sex work should be legal but exploitation must be policed - pimping, trafficking, coercion, rape or other physical abuse all happen even where sex work is legal. Sex workers must retain agency over their work.

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Decriminalized over legal, but yes. In general, I think it's weird that the addition of choice is bad, ever. If you have 0 options, and then someone comes along and gives you a shitty option but still a small improvement, then things have gotten *better*

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p.s. thank you so much for the gifts i am so delighted <3

6:33 PM · Oct 11, 2018

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I'm thinking of the case of many choices instead of a few, simply because people are so bad at choosing well. Going from no choice to one is going to be better, but is there ever "no choice"? Most cases seem to be where there are many choices that are too bad or hard to consider

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I'm glad you liked them!