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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Feb 2019

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞

    I'd ask "what went right?" There's no reason to pay someone $72,000 / yr to put boxes on shelves, when a 15 yo kid can do it. That cost gets passed along to all of us, and disincentives smart grocery store workers from actually doing something more useful with their liveshttps://twitter.com/Face_Almighty44/status/1094769856023613443 …

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    𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞 @Face_Almighty44
    Serious discussion for a Friday night. My mom told me tonight that in 1978 she was working a union job at a grocery store in N. Met ATL for 10 dollars an hour. Inflation calculator tells me that is now $36/hr. Question: what the hell went wrong in the intervening 40 yrs?
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      2. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Precise Inflation adjustment procedure is a huge distorter in these comparisons imo

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      3. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞‏ @Face_Almighty44 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @drethelin @MorlockP

        Can you elaborate?

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      2. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞‏ @Face_Almighty44 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @MorlockP

        I feel like that's a needlessly reductive(?) take. What about guys who were making $10/hr building houses back then? I just messaged my dad to find out what he was making onna road crew that same year. Will report back.

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      3. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞‏ @Face_Almighty44 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @Face_Almighty44 @MorlockP

        Dad reports he was making 3.85 (min wage) on road crew in 1978 or 79. So maybe my mom's wage was seriously high

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      2. Not that frog‏ @Frog_O_War 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @MorlockP

        I'd be asking her if that union job still existed.

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      3. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞‏ @Face_Almighty44 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @Frog_O_War @MorlockP

        Long gone obviously and I don't know enough to guess how much the Union aspect distorted the wage.

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      2. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞‏ @Face_Almighty44 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Further questions Morlock, whats your take on the "Wages have been stagnated for the last 40 years" thing people are talking about? That's really what I'm curious about.

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Feb 2019
        Replying to @Face_Almighty44

        Not all wages! Deregulation & increasing returns bc of tech mean that wages of high skill jobs have done VERY well. Wages for low end jobs are stagnant tho. When you're competing against machines, and/or peasants overseas, and add very little value...that's not gonna get good pay

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      1. TomWaitsfornoone‏ @TomWaits4nobody 10 Feb 2019
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        Learn to stock

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2019

        A 40 hr/week software engineer can do that just as a 40 hr/week grocery stocker can.

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