If the latter, your society presumptively has an artificially maintained underclass whose exploitation is used to subvert market forces.
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@chaosprime@arc315 frequently, the actually unpleasant part of the job is the pay. And that's about it. -
@rcousine@chaosprime Eric Schlosser's account of modern day meat packing jobs would disagree: low pay, dangerous, and very overworked. -
@rcousine@chaosprime also, Amazon warehouse workers (overworked and overheated), BC teachers (overburdened and underfunded) … (cont) -
@rcousine@chaosprime Basically, I think your point is massively glib and facile and wrong. -
@arc315@chaosprime you've chosen your own definition of low-paying, and that's interesting. Cognitive demand gates a LOT of jobs... -
@rcousine A nominal wage of $9.50/hr (before wage theft) is low pay, Ryan. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/07/dangerous-meatpacking-jobs-eric-schlosser … -
@arc315 are you aware of a job where illiteracy is not a bar and the wages are better? (It's a crap job, but why is it filled?) -
@rcousine Dishwashing pays the same and is far less dangerous.
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