71 points

Wont accept or can’t?

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26 points

Aren’t being offered.

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35 points

Where are these jobs you speak of which such a salary

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14 points

Trade work, office type jobs in big cities with an established career, police, and Onlyfans.

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6 points

Most only fans creators aren’t even able to pull min wage. It’s a side gig for all but the top percent or two.

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-2 points

You can make minimum wage working as a coder or 6 figures. They only asked where jobs that pay $81k are.

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4 points

Police are an excellent example of why unions should be armed.

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2 points

Everyone should be armed and proficient, if they so choose and aren’t a violent criminal, and if they have a union card they are all the better a citizen.

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19 points

The trades: carpentry, plumbing, roofing, etc. Plus side, it doesn’t require a degree.

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15 points

Better save and be prepared to retire early.

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37 points

Basically, jobs that destroy your body, so you can’t work past 55 anyway.

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-3 points

Or you transition to an owner/management role so that you can stop punishing your body in your 40s

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-11 points

Then be smart about it. The money you saved from not paying for college can go into a retirement account. When your body is “destroyed” you have retirement income.

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5 points

As if sitting at a desk all day doesn’t destroy your body.

I’ll pick a physically active job any day of the week. If you choose not to wear your gloves, knee pads, ear defenders, goggles etc. it’s on you.

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Where I live, two of the three trades you listed require completion of 4-year apprenticeships, including a minimum of 6 weeks of in-school technical training per year. It’s much cheaper to train as an apprentice than it is to pay other post-secondary tuitions, and you earn an income most of the time you’re an apprentice, but the reality is a lot more complicated.

And it’s also very easy to be employed in most trades and not make that much. It depends on which trade you’re in, how much punishment you can take, and whether you’re in a union job or not.

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81 points

When cost of living goes up every year by 3-5%, you can’t accept dirt wages… it’s starting to feel like maybe we got a raw deal with this infinite boom bust cycle capitalism has created for the pleebs.

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starting to feel?

Pacific is a puddle of water then eh?

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An iteration of the survey taken in July found that 4.4% of respondents expect to lose their jobs in the near future. To put that into context, the only other time it’s ever hit 4% was when the pandemic struck in March 2020.

That’s pretty stark.

But despite fears they may be jobless soon, today’s job seekers won’t accept less than $81,147—up by almost $20,000 since March 2020. This figure is the average reservation wage of workers, which is the lowest wage at which respondents would be willing to accept a new job.

I guess people polled are doing better than I’d expect. I thought a lot of people have to accept a fair amount lower than this. How many fast food workers are making this much? Maybe in California (where cost of living is also much higher), but I doubt it in Alabama.

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I thought a lot of people have to accept a fair amount lower than this.

I mean, they could accept lower, but then they’d be homeless and starving but still employed, so they can’t get any benefits.

Not really a choice they’d willingly want to make.

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5 points

California fast food workers are getting $20+ / hour but there’s no fucking way the average worker is getting 29+ hours a week. They’d be owed benefits.

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51 points

Fortune is out here painting narratives. It’s okay, keep going, we’ll keep striking.

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  • All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
  • Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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