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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by luqtas on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:32AM (#41380632)
i dunno where this idea of manual labor being treated as something so simple it shouldn't deserve a decent pay... i worked as a dishy also as a bicycle courier & i bet i'm ballparks more efficient than anyone who never had to these jobs

we have a heck of a hard time emulating or creating navigational system for robots, specially if we don't train them million of times for extremely simple tasks like grabbing boxes in a controlled enviroment. let not mention energy usage these things need; point is: maybe reaching a plato of being a dishy is easier than coding/programming C for embedded systems, but we can't deny that a lot of people in tech don't learn or get into different fields projects all the time, so there isn't a "keep learning/tinkering hard all the time" type of thing...

is it easier to build a website for a client with an open-source framework that you used for the 100th time or being at a almost 40 °C kitchen washing dishes in a speed way faster than one would do @ their houses?

Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by infecto on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:59PM (#41386498)
It’s the intersection of skill, risk and mental requirements. Being an old school drill rig guy, high risk, long hours, bad locations. You get high pay. Washing dishes is unpleasant but easy to replace. There are many labor jobs that pay well for a reason. I asked what is the right pay then for a job that anyone can pick up immediately.
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by luqtas on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:08PM (#41386866)
maybe to find a decent pay is to not treat dishies as an easy to replace person?
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by infecto on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:02AM (#41389499)
don’t confuse a fact, that it’s a role that’s easy to replace with how the person is treated. All deserve respect but that does not entirely translate to their wage.