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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by JetSpiegel on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#15163181)
If janitors don't matter, why have them in the first place? Why is Apple wasting shareholders' money on non-essential personnel?

If they had no janitors the productivity for other workers would be 0 (think of the smell), so I would argue janitors are essential personnel.

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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by fatjokes on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:57PM (#15163497)
Reductio ad absurdum. I'm not arguing for zero or even few janitors. Just that they're more interchangeable and thus have less negotiating power.
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