Re:Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Wor...
by LatteLazy on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:54AM
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What you're talking about is redistribution. And I'm in favour of that. But who are you going to redistribute from? Me? No thanks, I'm already supporting a crowd of boomers and farmers and a bloated military sector and billionaire bailouts etc. So you'll have to cut some of those. But good luck doing that under the current politically system.
This is why it's so hard at the bottom of the labour market: we spent all our money on corn subsidiaries and free shit for people over 65. There's nothing left for working people. And that includes me. I had to struggle through a shitty under funded school, take poorly paid jobs, pay off a huge student loan and now I'm facing higher income taxes and bloated artificial house prices and a national debt built to record levels giving other people tax cuts for nothing.
We can't solve issues like this in isolation because the real issue is that there are no resources left. You have to solve resource distribution. And that's gonna be very very hard. Until then, all any of us can do is try to avoid being in a group that isn't politically important.
"Welcome to the shitty end of the employment pool. If you don't want to get stuck here, stay in school kids!"
Is not a solution, it's a personal escape hatch for the few that can follow the advice. Even if everybody "stayed at school" there would still be a need for these jobs, so it would just be that degrees would devaluate so that people are still working those. At worse, they would be done by immigrants who don't have the means or support to "stay at school" anyway.
In other words, as long as there are people working those jobs, the answer is not "stay in school to avoid them", but in fixing the horrible conditions.
"Stay in school" is a quinteseential individualistic "each to their own" answer.
A civilized answer would be legal changes...