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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you think wages is the end all to this decision. As someone who HAS cleaned hotel rooms and who HAS picked crops (briefly b/c it sucks), I'd never do these jobs again. Never.

I grew up pretty poor in a rural area where kids worked young and worked ALOT. So I've done jobs most people on here have not and would not. Those jobs are back breaking, disgusting jobs.[/quote]

And here you are, missing the whole boat again. 
Maybe you are in a position where you have enough financial security and other skills where can say you will NEVER do that job. Fine. But we can’t all be white collar workers, and our white collar job salaries only go as far as they do because other people are doing the nasty dirty work you do not want to do.

[b]The fact is, if someone is hungry enough and able, they will do a job. [/b]We have tons of people who are both on welfare and overweight, while brown people are working and harvesting the crops. I mean, WTF?? And we have UMC DCUM people who have never done manual labor in their lives, because the brown people are doing it. Why is this good?

A lot of you really lack imagination and literally can’t imagine where labor and resources are distributed more equitably. I guess Larlo is just too special to work in a tire shop. [/quote]

Except we know this is not true. There already people hungry and poor who won't do it. Or cannot due to childcare (which is unaffordable) or disabilities or whatever. I get the boat. I LIVED "the boat" and have had both sets of jobs in my life. And I can tell you there are a whole host of people in my rust belt town who are white and poor and still won't do those jobs.

If you want people to do those jobs- white or brown- there should be increased safety and health standards for them and they should be paid more. THAT'S how you get people to do it. Not "the brown people are not here to do it anymore so you have to do it now b/c I think you should."

And as for our kids being "too special" for work in a tire shop or other service industry, what does your kid do? And further, having worked in many, MANY service and blue collar jobs, yeah, no, I don't want my kid there. Not bc it's beneath me or DC. But because they are, generally speaking, rough careers, not paid well, and not always safe (esp. for women). I could tell you stories of how men treated me in those jobs that would make you blush.[/quote]

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