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| Topic | "Minimum wage jobs are for teenagers! Don't raise the min. wage!" |
| averagejoel 08/09/19 2:08:24 AM #111: | SailorGoon posted... you're looking at this as though it's an issue with individual people. it is not. it is systemic. in other words, the problem is not "I am not making enough money"; it is "this job is shitty and exploitative." one more person "living within their means" will not fix that. one thousand more people "living within their means" will not fix that either. leaving the job also does not solve the problem of the job being shitty and exploitative -- it still exists regardless of who's working, and it is still shitty and exploitative even if the person working the job does not express any grievance with it. if every single person in such a situation did what you did, the shitty exploitative job would still be there, and someone would still be working it. capitalism necessitates the existence of an underclass. because of the way it functions, it cannot work out well for everyone. --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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