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"These jobs are below me! They should belong to the peasants!"
More that these jobs do not pay enough to pay for the degree, or even enough to simply afford a place to live without a second job.
US millennials were told growing up that literally all you had to do was get a bachelors, because that’s how it worked in previous generations. We had to take out ridiculous loans to pay for this, because even in-state tuitions have been out of control for about two decades now. Now, the job market is shit (and really has been since we entered the job market.) It doesn’t matter how smart or capable you are. The US doesn’t want smart or capable right now.
I remember getting my first check as a teacher. When I calculated the amount of time I spent working, and my pay bump from being a fast food supervisor to yah know, a degreed professional expected to work 80+ hour weeks didn’t mean jack or shit, especially when I had to buy my own supplies.
It’s fucked up.
These people are the "peasants" or close enough the distinction doesn't matter. We were all told the way to move up was to go to college pay all that tuition and you'll more than make it up longterm. If you end up working min wage stuff anyway it's better to just do it out of high-school. The warehouse guy probably makes decent but is also working shit hours and slowly destroying his body, again something college is supposed to help you avoid.
Yeah but a degree is not a get-out-of-shit-job-free card... We all have to take what the market offers, or get creative, start a business, etc.
And it's not like people without degrees don't put effort into improving their skills.
As long as the majority of people can just forget unpleasant jobs exists and leave them to the less fortunate, the incentive to make them less shitty is weak.
But when you're choosing your potential college paths as a 16 year old child, how exactly are you supposed to make a solid prediction of the job market in 7 years?
Normalize being able to fuck around enjoying life in your teens and 20s and not needing to make serious life changing decisions until you're ready. We live too long to rush things and too short to spend it miserable and regretful.
succinctly put, and relevant username.
"Those lazy peasants! They are hardly working!"
I firmly believe we all should take turns doing the shit jobs so that some are spared from having to do it all the time.
The CEO should spend a few hours a week scrubbing toilets. Citizens should go on say, a two-year tour of duty in their young years to do the stuff depicted in the comic. A benefit is that they'll treat service workers better later in life.
And more importantly, we should question how much of this is actually necessary. It seems all most of it does is make a couple people rich beyond morality.
100%. Same reasoning I have for mandatory civil service (instead of military). Even just a shared memory of how doing it sucked balls could do wonders for social cohesion.
Or. You could just pay them more. Which would be politically way easier.
Discomfort pay. I think doing disgusting or hard jobs should carry EXTRA pay.