Re:Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink
by stragies on Friday March 27, 2020 @04:00PM
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It was my impression, that OP was using the term "shit jobs" to denote jobs with low pay, but high effort, manual, dangerous, etc.
"Plumbing" is therefore not a "shit job". It's well paid compared to most (Uber/Taxi/etc-)driving, cleaning, trash-collecting and many other jobs.
Re:Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink
by tracker1 on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:39PM
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Trash collecting tends to pay pretty well too.
Re:Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink
by stragies on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:48AM
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Yes, but trash collecting is super-easy to automate compared to automated "finding-of-plumbing-solutions".
It all depends on the ratio "Ease-of-implementation" / "Cost of existing manpower" for each sector of job.
Re:Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink
by tracker1 on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:22PM
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Even then, your own definition of shit jobs, " low pay, but high effort, manual, dangerous, etc." doesn't really correspond that well.
High effort and dangerous jobs usually pay well... low paying jobs are inherently manual, and/or likely to be automated away. In the end, some things don't automate well. There's a human aspect to a lot of things, and many of those won't be displaced soon. Of course, I do understand that many other jobs cannot fill the void that will be lost, especially with an ever expanding population.
Just look at how poorly the couple of attempts at McD's to automate the cooking processes, they failed miserably... Even today there's a lot of manual work in automated factories.