• BURN@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If someone is content with flipping burgers their entire life they should be able to survive on the wages they’re paid. “Burger flippers” are still essential to the operation of the country. The service industry is a vital part of American culture, and if you want to maintain it then paying people to do the jobs you don’t want to is the only way.

    Your problem should be with other professions not paying more, not that other people are finally making enough money to survive.

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        1 year ago

        They should, and can be. It sounds like you’re unhappy with how your life has panned out and think everyone needs to be “grinding” 100% of the time to be better. Not everyone thinks that way or wants to. Just because you think a job is beneath you doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be done. If all the service industry workers, who you claim have no skills btw, stopped working then the world would cease to function in a day, if not hours.

        You’re blaming the workers for the problems created by the ones with money.

        It’s been statistically proven that costs don’t go up when minimum wage does. Europe has higher minimum wages and yet their prices tend to be lower than ours. So there’s no actual data to support things getting more expensive due to minimum wage increases. And surprise, the prices are going to raise wether or not you get a raise.

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          Unskilled labour just means a job you can do with little training. Skilled labourers are like doctors, lawyer, engineers, tradespeople, etc. that take years of school and experience.

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            Nope. Those are in large part degreed or certified jobs, all labor requires a skill. Ask a fish to take out the trash and you’ll quickly figure out my meaning.

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            Skilled laborer here, engineer. Unskilled labor deserves pay no worse than 10k what I make. I didn’t choose to be an engineer because it paid well. I, and most people in my class frankly, liked the subject. That’s all.

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              “skilled labor” here also, ive done many many jobs and all of them require a skill. Saying there’s “skilled labor” is just a way to say there is “unskilled labor” and pay less, but I guarantee you take the CEO of Wells Fargo and put them in a dish pit for a year they will learn rather quickly there is skill to it.

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        1 year ago

        Why you angry at the dude who can’t pay rent but not mad at the dude shooting himself and his buddies into space?

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        1 year ago

        Holy shit grandpa I could hear your arthritis ridden fingers writing all that bullshit, you forgot to talk about the good ol’ days btw.

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        1 year ago

        Own a burger joint.

        Because small businesses never fail and end up with the owner losing their shirt. But I suppose they deserve for their business to fail for not pulling their bootstraps hard enough or something, right?

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            I see. The only two options are be a “miserable piece of shit” as a “skill-less burger flipper” or be a highly skilled burger flipper running your own business that fails within a year and you go bankrupt. Gotcha.