Slavery Never Died
..it just got redefined
Warning: this is a polemic.
Recently, I read some… moron isn’t a strong enough word… posted that it is not an employer’s obligation to pay a living wage, and the further, it is incumbent on you to learn a “marketable skill”.
This is bullshit of the lowest order. If the job needs done, and you can do it, it’s a marketable skill. Full stop. That we have no enforcement, and no means of making “essential work” pay a living wage is where the problem lies.
Let’s have a look at some of these jobs that aren’t “marketable”. You draw you own conclusions as to whether somebody working these jobs “deserves” to make a living.
Server.
Call center.
Cook.
Grocery employee.
Construction laborer.
Warehouse worker.
Receptionist
I could go on, but that’s enough for the moment.
Now, you, dear reader, please tell me which of these jobs does not need to be done?
I’ll wait. I have time. I have to go work anyway, at a job that is “essential” to my employer. I have a decent employer. Damn good, in fact, for America. But it is a low wage job. It is in the category that the above…
