• arcine
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    I agree with the argument but there is one undue assumption : Maybe they don’t agree the job is necessary.

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      Maybe they don’t agree the job is necessary.

      If you’re patroning the business, you are implicitly conceding the necessity.

      I’ll spot you there’s a plethora of Bullshit Jobs, but they are far more likely to be bureaucratic policing or saturation marketing than retail food service.

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        Because they are lazy and tell themselves that it’s smarter to eat fast food than to cook

        I knew someone who rationalised ordering food to be delivered for every meal as more economical than cooking

        He became the Chief Financial Officer for KFC in my country

        He’s fat, and his relationship fell apart

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        Because they never stopped being children and things that aren’t awfulor familiar scare and horrify them. Their brains are fundamentally broken at a deep level and they need probably years of intensive managed psychological help to want anything other than what amounts in aggregate to death in every way that matters while being desperately afraid to die. McDonalds is like a branded fun nostalgic thing that invokes the dying without being scary

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          I more meant along the line that if they don’t deem the job important enough, why are they still relying on the worker?

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              I agree with the argument but there is one undue assumption : Maybe they don’t agree the job is necessary.

              I was just using McDonald’s workers as an example, as I’ve heard that referenced multiple times in the past as “why don’t they just get a better job”, referring to the idea that their job doesn’t deserve a living wage.

              So if “they” don’t deem the job as necessary, why are they still relying on it?

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                No. its the money that makes the fried potatoes. What do workers have to do with it? Clearly you’ve never made anything in your life.

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      Ohh it’s not necessary, it can be automated. Then a tablet can take the order/payment. then you don’t need managers.

      Cleaning, Maintenance, and Unemployment. That’s what our grandchildren will be left with. And maybe not cleaning if the design is done well enough.