Stego
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According to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on educational attainment for workers 25+ in the "fast food and counter workers" occupation (which includes baristas), 14.7% hold a bachelor's degree.
This lines up with O*NET and other labor analyses showing the majority (around 70%) have a high school diploma or less.
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The narrative of the "Starbucks barista with a useless terminal humanities degree" is both hyperbole and a metonym for the general sense of disappointment and disillusionment a big chunk of the lumpenintelligentsia have experienced. It's less that they are working service jobs and more that they are working at shitty community colleges in Podunk nowhere towns teaching remedial English to glassy-eyed former meth addicts instead of doing Serious Academic Research at an Ivy, which they feel is their birthright.
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz
College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But it isn't quite right. In truth, recent college grads today are *more* likely to hold a job that requires a degree -- and *less* likely to have a low-wage service job -- than they were in the mid-1990s vox.com/politics/48505…
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What you are saying is a complete oxymoron.
The only way you have automation is by desiging, building, testing, installing, and maintaining VERY SPECIALIZED equipment that ALL OF WHICH requires MANY jobs to accomplish.
That's anyone from maintanence, industrial / electrical / mechanical engineers, mechanics etc. You are simply switching the work load principles to make it happen.
The thought or the hope of this transistion is the overall investment finally pays for itself over X number of years vs paying human beings directly. That's the investment risk. If you have automation machinery that fails quite regularly requiring highly trained / paid robotics / electrical techs, you can easily eat up that investment and start going the other way.
There is no such thing as snapping your fingers and now you remove humans from doing everything. You simply just shift their focus to other areas.
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NEW: Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot warehouse in Ontario, California.
29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim was arrested on arson charges for setting a Kimberly-Clark warehouse on fire.
Abdulkarim apparently filmed himself on Instagram setting toilet paper packages in the warehouse on fire.
"You may not pay us enough to f*cking live, but these b*tches dirt cheap... There goes your inventory," Abdulkarim apparently said.
"All you had to do is pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to f*cking live."
The warehouse is the size of 11 city blocks. In total, 175 firefighters and 20 engines were on the scene trying to put the fire out.
No one was injured.
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@8lissFullyAware @AkanInyne1 @CollinRugg i often wonder how most people will fare when labor(mental & physical) is fully automated. what will our worth and value be when such things are made redundant?
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Oh fuck off you retard..
You get paid what you are worth, period. If you are so clueless in life by the time you are an adult that the only skill you can do is some warehouse stocking job.., then that's 100% on YOU.
You don't have to agree to the pay. You don't have to take the job. You DO HAVE TO HAVE SKILLS to be VALUABLE in the workplace.
If you have zero value in the workplace, expect the same ratio of pay.
It's that simple.
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The government is literally mass-producing evil squids at the evil squid factory and nobody even cares
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@JustJenRX a real estate agent & art school graduate. 😂 sometimes the stereotypes go so hard i think this must be a simulation.
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