Current Events > Remember how quickly the media went from calling workers essential to unskilled?

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Yeah. I do. Almost as if when people demanded higher wages they got dehumanized...

"Unskilled" is pretty far from being dehumanizing
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America hates its workers so much

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not really, i stopped paying attention to "the media" years ago, most of my exposure to it comes from here at this point.

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The whole "essential worker" thing was just a bunch of fluff anyway. They didn't get compensated for working during the pandemic nor were they treated better.

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Mr Hangman posted...

Those are not mutually exclusive. You can have a job that is essential in the sense that it's important that someone keep doing it and it not be interrupted, and yet doesn't require any great skill to do and that person could be easily replaced.

Apparently not lol.

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No more heroes, just scum now.

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monkmith posted...

not really, i stopped paying attention to "the media" years ago, most of my exposure to it comes from here at this point.

Same I don't think I've seen CNN or Fox in like 5 years at this point

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Don't forget Nurses are still essential and incredibly overpaid

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

wat

They didnt and still arent getting paid extra due to the danger

Perascamin posted...

Don't forget Nurses are still essential and incredibly overpaid

Or maybe their pay is finally catching up with the demands of the role.

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Perascamin posted...

Don't forget Nurses are still essential and incredibly overpaid

hahhaahahah no (to the second part)

BakonBitz posted...

The whole "essential worker" thing was just a bunch of fluff anyway. They didn't get compensated for working during the pandemic nor were they treated better.

Not universally true, my local grocery store bumped up wages for a while
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BakonBitz posted...

The whole "essential worker" thing was just a bunch of fluff anyway. They didn't get compensated for working during the pandemic nor were they treated better.

This.

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g980 posted...

Not universally true, my local grocery store bumped up wages for a while

That's awesome. Wish the same was true of my workplace.

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BakonBitz posted...

The whole "essential worker" thing was just a bunch of fluff anyway. They didn't get compensated for working during the pandemic nor were they treated better.

We only got an extra $2 for about a month and half at my old job

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Xavier_On_High posted...

Or maybe their pay is finally catching up with the demands of the role.

It's a job that requires very basic knowledge and communication skills and not much else to do efficiently. The hours worked suck, I can get behind that, but it's not something that's worthy of their rapidly increasing wages.

It's like being a server in a restaurant. You're a laborer on the floor doing menial tasks, like gathering information, and then relaying it to the next level up. In this case, Doctors.

Is it worth paying a basic RN $45/Hour? These rapidly increasing wages also just put the burden back on people because as a growing job field with rapidly increasing wages, the costs of Healthcare also go up for employers and independent people as well

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Yeah and all they got were some claps, but no real policy changes to give them a living wage or offer better working conditions. Politicians from both parties love doing that symbolic gesture shit without providing any material improvements to the people.

BakonBitz posted...

The whole "essential worker" thing was just a bunch of fluff anyway. They didn't get compensated for working during the pandemic nor were they treated better.

This. They're only essential when it suits them. Actual benefits nah fuck that. Something something hamburger flipper