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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just another example of massively overpaying for unskilled and uneducated labor.  The results will be predictable, which are to accelerate the use of automation as much as possible. It’s only a matter of time before they overcompensate themselves out of existence.  Why would anyone with an education and skills accept a lower salary than a UPS truck driver?   Is everyone will be asking for higher wages, which in the end causes a whole bunch of wage driven inflation.  The end result is that UPS drivers get nowhere in terms of real purchasing power as where they were before, and all the country did after terrible wage inflation is just ruin everyone’s life savings in the process.

Companies will also start pulling out of the US as labor becomes massively overcompensated for these simple jobs.[/quote]

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With caveat that I think those of us with education and skills will not see the higher wages--our jobs will be eliminated or office jobs will begin to be seen as women's work and will pay accordingly--a lot of the unskilled labor will be seen as man's work and they will be paid accordingly. 
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Unskilled labour over here - I’m a nanny and get paid $45-50/hr in Los Angeles. I started working for celebrities 20 years ago, and that’s my rate with a high school education. Housekeepers in LA are also paid $40+ per hour. We also break our backs and deal with a lot of stress, to make other peoples lives easier. We deserve it. So does ups. [/quote]

Everyone thinks their job is a pain doesn't mean all jobs should pay the same wages. Also, who decides which unskilled labor job set is more worthy of higher pay than anothe unskilled labor job set. Who is on this deciding committee? Why should the nice lady who work at the grocer check out line make less than a UPS worker? Why can't this lady ask for tips, like the doordash driver deamands?[/quote]

The market decided my job should pay more. Nanny prices in LA became crazy after covid. That $25/hr job is now $35-40. Unskilled shouldn’t necessarily mean low paid. I feel like UPS drivers have such a hard job, unless it was well paid, no one would want to do it. Same with working for celebrities. I fall that ‘crazy pay’ because you get paid more to deal with the crazy. [/quote]

Nanny work isn't unskilled labor--not just anyone can do it. Something sets you all apart from the massess that makes people trust you to take care of their children and be in their homes when they (the parents) are not there. [/quote]

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