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Who are you to say what someone else should pay to get a certain job done? What's wrong with it is no employer wants to pay that much for that kind of work. The fact is that what the employer is willing to pay for this kind of work is not enough to live on. The employer offers what it is worth to him and it's up to someone else to accept or not. The problem is that people accept it and then whine about it and depend upon welfare (funded by my taxes) to get by.
You make the same decision in your everyday spending. You decide what a product or service is worth TO YOU. How much the other party wants or needs is not a factor. Let's say you want someone to wash and wax your car. You're willing to pay $10. It isn't your concern if that is enough for someone else to live well or not. You offer $10. If no one accepts you can offer more, do it yourself, or let it go undone. If someone accepts, they do the work and you pay the money.
What is wrong is when employers do not pay their employees enough to live on not only does that cause stress and worry for the employee which may cause homelessness but cause us taxpayers to make up for the low wages the employers pay. No the employer pays what ever they want to it has nothing to do with worth because there is no standard for job worth if there is show me the jobs and worth. People accept it because they can not afford to go to school are not smart enough to do more then basic jobs. It is not a concern to people who are selfish and only care about themselves or people who can help them.
Fair as in the equilibrium point between supply and demand
You do know that the equilibrium point between supply and demand refers to products businesses are selling and if customers are buying it it has nothing to do with wages. If it did there would be a lot of supply but little demand because people would not make enough to buy the products being sold.
You honestly crave being around the public each day? By contrast, I can tolerate it one day out of every three or four--and that's an improvement over how I was in the past. We are different people
You do know that the equilibrium point between supply and demand refers to products businesses are selling and if customers are buying it it has nothing to do with wages. If it did there would be a lot of supply but little demand because people would not make enough to buy the products being sold.
News Flash: Labor is a product. When you apply for work, that is what you are selling. When a corp hires, labor is the product they buy.
Almost anyone can do it so it pays next to nothing. It doesn't have the features that increase the pay such as danger (coal mining, commercial fishing), dirty (garbage collection, construction), specialized knowledge (nursing, teaching), or civil service protection (letter carrying). But on the other hand, it still pays better than multilevel marketing.
We can only hope the retail jobs that disappear are replaced with better ones. It happened when agricultural work was supplanted by industrial. But that's a subject for another thread.
Almost anyone can do it so it pays next to nothing. It doesn't have the features that increase the pay such as danger (coal mining, commercial fishing), dirty (garbage collection, construction), specialized knowledge (nursing, teaching), or civil service protection (letter carrying). But on the other hand, it still pays better than multilevel marketing.
We can only hope the retail jobs that disappear are replaced with better ones. It happened when agricultural work was supplanted by industrial. But that's a subject for another thread.
They will have to get computer science degrees and work in tech I suppose.
You honestly crave being around the public each day? By contrast, I can tolerate it one day out of every three or four--and that's an improvement over how I was in the past. We are different people
I have mild autism (diagnosed by a professional), so I am at the other extreme of socialization. I actually languish if I am not around people every day.
Because it sucks ass . I like people and love working with people. But working in retail. Hell no.
Who determines what kind of job sucks? I work as an optician, which is an odd combination of medical and retail. I used to work in ophthalmology, which was strictly medical, but I like optical better, even though I always have to work Saturdays and it pays a lot less. It is lower pressure and I don't have to go into surgery, which was deadly dull for me. I would hand the surgeon instruments, watch paint dry, freeze my butt off, and watch the clock as the minutes ticked by. With optical, I work with the public, but they usually don't have eye diseases so they are in a better mood. I would hate factory work, a job in which I have to bring work home with me, a very physical job, or a job in which I am on call. It depends on the individual and what they like.
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