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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by sorokod on Saturday January 20, 2018 @03:05PM (#16195144)
The definition of a shit job is relative to the perceived average. What is paradoxical about that?
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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by indubitable on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:36AM (#16197214)
We see a problem. We see a solution. And most everybody would agree, in a vacuum, that the solution does indeed work towards solving the problem. Yet, in social effect, it actually exasperates the problem. This is paradoxical, to me.
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