Work is work. Talking about "unskilled" labor is just a way to pit us against each other instead of looking at the Capitalist who's making a killing off our sweat
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We (knowledge workers, esp in tech) are not the same as retail/service workers earning $8/hr, nor undocumented agriculture workers earning even less while enduring state abuse and having no rights. Not the same ballpark, not even the same sport. You’re wrong.
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"We're not the same" is true, but how is it relevant?
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Because I’m refuting the WoRk iS wOrk argument, I could not be clearer. It’s always the best-paid people in tech making this argument, that “workers and capitalists” are the only two classes, like they’re really in the same boat as retail workers.
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They are salaried workers who do not own the output of their labor. Whether they are knowledge workers or not means little; "I can survive 1 year out of my job rather than 1 month like retail workers" means little. They deserve to be paid a livable wage.
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Literally nobody is disputing that. But “work is work” is a stretch, and acting like tech’s best-paid programmers are in the same boat as retail workers is insane. Also, how can a $20k earner live a MONTH without income? Savings are not a thing.
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You are seperating people by how much they earn, which is precisely why we are here. The sanitation workers retail workers and more deserve 60k, 80k salaries, which is what they were earning equivalent of back post-union-fixes and in a less horrible society.
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Their work IS work, and they should be paid for it. That's the point. Nobody should be earning poverty wages for any job.

8:25 PM · Jan 18, 2021

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