• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “That job doesn’t deserve a living wage” = “I dont respect the people who do that job”

    It’s people looking down on that work as being inferior to them and their job and them thinking “they shouldn’t get what I have”. It’s a view that jobs are better or worse than others thats been perpetuated by the rich. Belittling people who are not the top earners and making the argument that they deserve less that someone that they deem more professional.

    What what these people should be saying is why don’t I get more for my efforts , not that others deserve less.

    By keeping the anger pointing down, they stop you from looking up.

    If you ever find yourself at work and think that another member of your team isn’t pulling their weight and that they are getting paid more than than you, consider that they might be, by some fluke of fate, actually be being paid fairly and it’s you who is being taken advantage of. Either put your feet up or stamp your feet on the ground, but don’t kick the chair out from under your peers because that’s exactly what the people who pay your wages want you to do.