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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by headmelted on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:43AM (#27419733)
You’re saying that on Hacker News though, which means you’re probably well (i.e. expensively) educated with good prospects and an income significantly north of the minimum wage being offered in these jobs.

lower the floor a bit until the jobs don't look so bad

Surely you can see how this reply reads as “let them eat cake”? (And thats the most polite way to put it I could think of).

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by davidgould on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:03AM (#27420788)
>reply reads as “let them eat cake”

I don't think that was the parents intent. I read it as descriptive of how the system currently functions, not as justification for it being that way.

I've been thinking about this, how a society can get necessary work done without forcing some people to choose between doing it or starving. Perhaps if everyone was guaranteed to be fed, to be housed, and to have medical care, then the market would find a fair price for collecting garbage or cleaning floors.

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