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Anon gets an ultimatum (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Yep, imagine that, work that anyone can do sucks balls.

Given the turnover rate, its not just anyone. The miserable nature of the work and the awful pay tends to make these jobs difficult to fill.

Now let’s go back about 80 years or so

Subsistence farming hasn't been the primary means of employment in the US in over a century.

But they were still better than what my parents went through

The inflation adjusted minimum wage of 1950 was $2 more than it is today. By the 1970s, the min wage was an inflation-adjusted $12.60. And that was with housing at less than a quarter of the going inflation-adjusted rate and utilities practically being free. Americans saw an explosion in quality of life between the 1940s and 1980s, peaking in the 90s at the dawn of the information age.

I didn’t have to sleep in the barn with the animals like my grandfather. Or in a cold house with nothing but a wood stove in the kitchen like my parents. And I could shit inside, not have to go to an outhouse in the winter

My home town of Houston is in its second city-wide blackout in barely more than a month. If our grid degrades any further, or a big enough storm tears up enough excess infrastructure, we could conceivably be back to wood stoves and out-houses by the end of the year. And we're hardly alone. From Flint, Michigan to Miami, Florida, core components of municipal infrastructure are failing in large part thanks to over-investment in consumer facing sales and under-investment in public works.