Are you willing to alter your lives after this is over?

Yes, they should die horribly if there is a pandemic. Or starve to death.

Or they could always choose the option of preparing for life? Unprepared people always suffer the most. Life is cruel. Prepare yourself.

Doesn’t really matter who’s fault it is, I’m not that interested in their life. I only care that they have a financial incentive to go to work sick and make me sick too.

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It’s almost like you’re quoting from Norma Rae.

Oh wait. Never mind.

There are exponentially more jobs available for waiters than for welders.

A friend of mine - a brilliant man - got his degree from Berkeley, and then decided he didn’t want to be an intellectual. He got an apprenticeship, and learned how to weld. He spend a couple of years as an apprentice, made his master piece, got all the necessary licenses.

He couldn’t find work. Eventually he found a job (that company had since gone under) - but even then, I made 3 or 4 times as much as he did, working as a waiter.

This isn’t particularly relevant to the story - but me and him have identical degrees - in the same field, from the same university.

Yeah, like it or not, this is a service economy. It’s probably a straight majority of the economy at this point instead of a plurality. And it’s just going to get worse. Any jobs that don’t require human interaction are the next on the chopping block.

Every middle manager I know with a slight appreciation of the future is scared to death of the next ten years.

Then what career skill do you think they should learn? Welder is good. So is electrician, mechanic, truck driver or pipe fitter. All good stuff. Deciding to make the service industry a career comes with consequences. In other words, people should simply prepare for life.

After this therexwikk be a lot of people who lost their jobs and health insurance looking going hmmm all these other countries were getting paid 80% of their salary and the dang lose their health insurance, and I got…a one time payout of $1200.

This will create a lot of socialists.

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I haven’t altered anything yet and don’t plan on it.

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So for you money is everything? That the more money you earn makes your life better?
I hate to tell you but money does not buy happiness.
I know a lot of people who are barely getting by who are some of the happiest people I know. They measure their worth by more than how much money they have in the bank. Or how many things they own.
To them family and friends are their greatest asset.
Some of them love the work they do even if the pay is lousy.
My grandmother told me when I was young and trying to decide what I wanted to do with my live to find what ever made me happy and go for it. Because if you really joy your work it is never work.

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If you look on craigslist, or at other job listings site, for every job opening for a welder, electrician, mechanic, truck driver or pipe fitter combined, you will see 10 times as many service industry openings.

Lolwut?

Hard to hear you all the back in 1986. There are ten, twenty times as many service jobs as there are jobs like this. You think people in the Rust Belt were forced to switch careers because there was an easy alternative to the mills or the factories?

i wont be wearing a ■■■■■■■ mask everywhere i go after this

the anti american left loves this because it makes us more like the second/third world which they adore.

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That seems to be what happens when the bootstraps meme collided with the no social mobility reality.

man the anguished left sure hates that “bootstrap” philosophy

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Yep. This part is my favorite:

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Do you think they will move to a socialist country? :thinking:

“Are you willing to alter your lives after this is over?” and “What permanent restrictions will you accept, if any?” are two entirely different questions.

What permanent restrictions (apart from “never shake hands again” :wink:) are being proposed by those in a position to do so?

That’s because the service industry isn’t supposed to be a career. High turnover. Having a lot of openings does not mean anyone is forced to take one.

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What year do you live in? The service industry isn’t supposed to be a career. That’s really something.