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I agree with the argument but there is one undue assumption : Maybe they don't agree the job is necessary.
Ohh it's not necessary, it can be automated. Then a tablet can take the order/payment. then you don't need managers.
Cleaning, Maintenance, and Unemployment. That's what our grandchildren will be left with. And maybe not cleaning if the design is done well enough.
If you're patroning the business, you are implicitly conceding the necessity.
I'll spot you there's a plethora of Bullshit Jobs, but they are far more likely to be bureaucratic policing or saturation marketing than retail food service.
They don't tell rich people who do unnecessary jobs to go do something productive instead.
No they're producing money that's like pure value and stuff doing. You need to download more ram my guy.
Then why are they at McDonald's?
Because they are lazy and tell themselves that it's smarter to eat fast food than to cook
I knew someone who rationalised ordering food to be delivered for every meal as more economical than cooking
He became the Chief Financial Officer for KFC in my country
He's fat, and his relationship fell apart
Because they never stopped being children and things that aren't awfulor familiar scare and horrify them. Their brains are fundamentally broken at a deep level and they need probably years of intensive managed psychological help to want anything other than what amounts in aggregate to death in every way that matters while being desperately afraid to die. McDonalds is like a branded fun nostalgic thing that invokes the dying without being scary
McDonald's branding isn't even fun anymore
I more meant along the line that if they don't deem the job important enough, why are they still relying on the worker?
The what? I don't understand and neither do they.
I was just using McDonald's workers as an example, as I've heard that referenced multiple times in the past as "why don't they just get a better job", referring to the idea that their job doesn't deserve a living wage.
So if "they" don't deem the job as necessary, why are they still relying on it?
No. its the money that makes the fried potatoes. What do workers have to do with it? Clearly you've never made anything in your life.