Is there dignity in all work?

[Art Vandelay]

Whenever the subject of the minimum wage comes up, elitist hostility is not far behind.

People shouldn't raise a family on a 5th to 6th grade level job. If your not a artist, go to school and learn a profitable skill. But this will ultimately hurt small businesses bad.

Walmart pays minimum wage for work that requires minimum skills. That's not a fault issue, that's good sense. What rocket scientists do you think are working the floor at Walmart?

What's wrong with learning a trade and making money off that skill? What plumbers/electricians/HVAC techs do you know that make less than $45 an hour?

You know why folk get minimum wage for flipping burgers? Because a 12 year old can do it!! If you're 48 doing the job of a 12 year old no amount of government intervention is gonna save you from bad life choices.

the reason why pay is so shitty flipping burgers is because its a teenagers job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY FOLKS DONT GET THIS


when i was coming up all the cashier, stock, and burger flipping jobs was usually done by teens working their way thru school. Now the hierarchy in the workforce so fucked up you got old ass niggaz for whatever reason who have no money for retirement flipping burgers at mcdonalds complaining about they need to raise minimum wages.

If anyone thinks "minimum wage" was made to live on then they are complete idiots. 16 year old kids flipping burgers don't need a living wage, they live at home with mommy and daddy.

Small business can't survive raising minimum wage. People who believe that small companies can just raise their pay rates easily has never run a small business.

You want more money, learn a trade or get an education.

When Martin Luther King died in Memphis fighting for the rights of striking sanitation workers, his message was quite different:



I don't even want to deal (here) with Dr. King's message that it is a crime for people in such a rich nation to receive starvation wages.

"If you will judge anything here in this struggle, you're commanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor. So often we overlook the worth and significance of those who are not in professional jobs, or those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity, and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, and it has worth. One day our society must come to see this. One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive. For the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician. All labor has worth."

Should "unskilled laborers" be disparaged, castigated and maybe even just left to die? Do you look at career fast food workers as the equivalent of teenagers who should have gotten an education? Do they have value? Does their labor?​

 

[Dannyblueyes]

What if you're the enforcer for a loan shark?

 

[Upgrade Dave]

What if you're the enforcer for a loan shark?

And that's why I voted for "Yes, with small qualifications".

 

[pookie]

Before Jesus time if someone saw Jesus do the things he did and told someone what they saw. They would say he is crazy. But there was a time when it was only black people here and we all did the things Jesus did and greater works.

The world's best kept secret is that OUR HEALTH IS OUR ONLY REAL WEALTH, anything else is borrowed. Including our lives. The healthier you get the wealthier you get. But everybody is not as healthy as they seem. But how life was in the 'GARDEN OF EDEN' when their was only black people on the face of the earth has been replaced with a reality created by the last people created (white people).

Elijah Muhammad has shown us the way. And he only had a 3rd grade education. Yet he was the most powerful black man in America during his time. With farm land all over the south. A lot of it in the southern states. And they had lots of business. Even a bank, and he had houses and apartments he rented out to low income black people.

The greatest job in the world is for a person to be himself.

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[Art Vandelay]

What if you're the enforcer for a loan shark?

And that's why I voted for "Yes, with small qualifications".

That's exactly why I broke it up into three categories.

If forced to answer yes or no, I'd have to say no because there is dishonorable work-- work that does not serve humanity or is for the building of humanity, as Dr. King said but, rather, works against it.

Enforcer for a loan shark is a great example. My first thought was actually prostitution, which is tougher to consider, but there are too many types of work which unapologetically and with full understanding work toward evil to claim that all work is dignified.

However, the sentiment is overwhelmingly true when looking at the way a majority of "unskilled work" is disrespected and treated as undignified.