Do you think unskilled workers deserve a livable wage?
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I donât think anybody deserves X dollars by default. You bargain your worth
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And if they donât have an accessible way to improve their skills and thus be able to bargain their worth⌠then thatâs their fault?
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Treating people as not important because theyâre less skilled or experienced is messed up.
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That is simple, because if they do that, they would tthinkis communism, or even qorse. Sindacalisation!
The sistem in wich we live dosent allow such equality, for that to exist we qould need to ged rid of the eternal and unlimited profit culture that capitalism bring over us.
I am not sayin, that capitalism is bad, but neither i am saying that is good. Only that is flawed, and we as a society needs to find another, better sustanability way to make profit, just enough to live well.
An not over pay single people for basically do nothing.
Never claimed unskilled workers are ânot important.â Iâll explain again - your employer pays you what they feel youâre worth in dollars. If you feel you should be paid more you can either A) Convince your employer that they should pay you X, B) Find another employer that will pay you X, or C) Become more valuable to employers.
Either way this conversation wasnât about unskilled labor until you guys derailed the conversation. It was about Blizzard employees. I doubt the average Blizzard employee is unskilled labor. The majority of Blizzard employees would have gathered enough of a skill set (by making intelligent choices with their own lives) that would give them more than enough leverage that if Blizzard wonât accept option A those employees are more than capable of taking up option B to the many number of jobs looking for people with their skillset.
Maybe they should unionize.
Translation: That wasnât real Socialism. The next country will get it rightâŚ
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I feel like this is an appropriate time for this image⌠https://i.ibb.co/x32fL8h/4c2.jpg
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Whether itâs messed up or not doesnât change the reality of what it is.
Too often people think of themselves uniquely apart from society when society is as important as ones individualism.
Society rewards value. Value in society is determined by your worth to that society. A hungry mouth isnât a value itâs a dependency, a liability.
Every day billions of people around this world get up and go do a job they probably donât feel like doing. If they ceased even for a day the world would be catastrophically worse off for it. That sacrifice we make to society is what makes society what it is. From bakers supplying breakast to the AM folks, to online content creators supplying videos, to doctors and engineers working around the clock to help us live longer and reduce our baggage.
All of this effort is why things are the way they are and all of it can be canceled in a heartbeat by naive fools.
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We all know this doesnât happen in the majority of jobs
Venezuela was/is a dictatorship hiding under the skirts of socialism. Thatâs why the faux capitalists who always have their hands out for government-backed bailouts of big business and for corporate tax subsidies always use Venezuela as the poster boy.
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I wonder what would happen if amazon or ashes of creation bought wows art team
Itâs not just the US. China, parts of EU are also the same way. I will say, though, that the US is worse which is surprising. Whereâs the trickle down? It hasnât happened. Japan, however, has it. (They have other issues, but income disparity isnât one of them)
If the Youtube commentariat** start releasing videos about this topic, then watch the moderators start deleting stuff left and right. lol
** Blizzardâs spell checker doesnât even have this word in its dictionary
See my reply about many people not having access to resources to become more valuable.
So their employer is unwilling to negotiate better pay, there are no other jobs available in your area, and they have no access to resources to improve their lives.
They are stuck at their under paid jobs indefinitely.
Having access to resources is a crucial component to improve your value to employers. Privilege is having that access and assuming everyone has the same access to those resources.
Telling people to âmake better choicesâ is ignorant to say the least.
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Itâs almost like trickle down economics is junk theory. Who wouldâve thought it? 
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Because apparently asking for fair wages is perceived as commie speak to some political camps. I say this as someone who thinks both political parties are equally sucky. Venezuela is a popular example some people like to pick despite a good number of the EU actually doing pretty well namely the nordic countries.
Thereâs also the VERY crucial and overlooked issue that jobs in ANY creative field, especially one working for a AAA video game company, have lines out the door and around the block for applicants.
Oh, you donât want to work for slave wages JUST to work in your field? Bye. Thereâs 1,500 people who will.
Itâs really bad right now in the entertainment industry because of this. Lots of people that were depending on Halloween acting gigs are now out of work for the rest of the year and a lot of them are just grabbing anything they can just to keep working including âvolunteerâ gigs that pay literally nothing, but if they donât take itâŚthereâs 50 other people who will.
I wish I could like this a hundred times.
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