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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just hate them because stores have replaced half a dozen checklanes with an employed human being each (sometimes two if they had baggers) with one minimum wage paid person watching over 20 machines. It's so blatantly disgusting to me, personally.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Should we really be propping up jobs of dubious usefulness rather than going after a proper social safety net? We could pay people to dig random holes and others to fill them in if we just wanted to pointless jobs. Why not just hand out the money directly? Why the perverse requirement to make them jump through hoops for it? It feels... condescending to me to knowingly make someone do a task that could be automated just to give them a pay check.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever since the lamplighters lost their jobs its all gone downhill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bring back the gas station attendants, make everywhere New Jersey!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If cashier isn't a useful job, why are these mega-corporations trying to get me to do it for free?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry, guess I was just living in reality and not a Pixar future where people get taken care of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You're already wasting energy being angry about it. Might as well aim a little higher with the fantasy. We all deserve better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So we should just maintain the status quo exactly as it is right now to make sure no one loses their job? Should we stop all automation to make sure that there's more jobs for people?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

On smaller packages! Ain't life grand?

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