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originally posted by: EvillerBob
originally posted by: doobydoll
Good grief.
Are you saying that if these fast-food places paid more that people would all be queuing to do them and no-one will want the better, cushier, degreed jobs?
Do you really think people will suddenly abandon their career/ambition/vocational calling if McD's pays a living wage?
What a fruiter.
Really not sure how you got that out of it.
The poster was pointing out that making this kind of low-end job a financially viable career would be counter-productive. It would discourage employees from trying to improve themselves and would also be insulting to the people who had busted a gut to get a good education and fought through an army of competing applicants to land a job, only to find themselves working at the same pay grade as the highschool dropout flipping burgers.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: gosseyn
My family? Sure. But if Norma's son from across the street were to walk in and rummage through it, he'd have to explain what the hell was going on. We are territorial. This is the nature of humans. On the other hand, most humans are altruistic enough to open a door that is being knocked on, even if they will shoot you for not bothering to knock.
I mention philosophy because the philosophical discussion of altruism is just that. I waited so long for it to happen on a national level that I have given up. Time to hunker down and make sure I don't starve during retirement.
So now, after explaining everywhere I have worked at and the type of worker I am, what gives you the nerve to say I made poor life choices to end up where I am?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: gosseyn
Supposition just doesn't have any meat on the bone. Sorry.
But if i am to tiptoe into the supposition, I'd point out that you are actually talking about the singularity of technology. From that point forward, its anybody's guess what will happen. First we will have to hope for an overlord that doesn't want us exterminated.
Until the neural circuits exist that allow computers to function with logic and insight on a human level, the world won't be automated.