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“One million high-paying upper-middle class family supporting jobs were destroyed, but on the bright side, one million minimum-wage Walmart greeter jobs were cr
by binary132 9d ago
“One million high-paying upper-middle class family supporting jobs were destroyed, but on the bright side, one million minimum-wage Walmart greeter jobs were created! See? We’re breaking even!”
- rayiner 9d agoBuilding and maintaining data centers aren’t minimum wage jobs. They are the best kind of jobs: accessible to somewhat above average people across a broad range of backgrounds. (As opposed to upper middle class knowledge worker jobs that are only accessible to the cognitive top 10%.)
- binary132 9d agoyes my comment was a satire of your thinking here, not an actual representation of reality
- burpingtree 9d agoI understand building data centers, but what does maintaining data centers entail? Are those going to be high paying jobs and how many of them. I don’t know much about the area but it seems like they would be low wage and not very many needed once the data centers are built.
- tdeck 9d agoI think we are kidding ourselves if we think writing software was only accessible to the cognitive top 10%. And even if that were the case for the highly paid software jobs, there was a long tail of WordPress customization type jobs that required less experience and will probably be going away.
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