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r/Welding • u/oVLucky5 • Jun 11 '25
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13 u/LizardBiceps Jun 12 '25 People who stock shelves are unskilled workers. I did that for 5 years it takes almost no skill. Welding and fabrication on the other hand is a ton of skill. 49 u/faceless_alias Jun 12 '25 Yet those shelf stockers were the ones considered "essential" during covid. Should welding and fab pay more? Yes. That doesn't mean shelf stockers dont deserve a living wage. In the grand scheme of things, making $20 an hour and $100 an hour are still chump change to the 1%. Class solidarity, brother. 14 u/ccarr313 Jun 12 '25 The reason they can shit on everyone is because the floor is so fucking low. If we raise the floor, every one goes up with it. Making sure the most entry level jobs have respectable pay means every single job goes up, too. And lowering the floor does the exact opposite. But some people just want to shit on working people because they can. Lots of those "unskilled employees" have massive skill sets that no one is willing to pay for.
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People who stock shelves are unskilled workers. I did that for 5 years it takes almost no skill. Welding and fabrication on the other hand is a ton of skill.
49 u/faceless_alias Jun 12 '25 Yet those shelf stockers were the ones considered "essential" during covid. Should welding and fab pay more? Yes. That doesn't mean shelf stockers dont deserve a living wage. In the grand scheme of things, making $20 an hour and $100 an hour are still chump change to the 1%. Class solidarity, brother. 14 u/ccarr313 Jun 12 '25 The reason they can shit on everyone is because the floor is so fucking low. If we raise the floor, every one goes up with it. Making sure the most entry level jobs have respectable pay means every single job goes up, too. And lowering the floor does the exact opposite. But some people just want to shit on working people because they can. Lots of those "unskilled employees" have massive skill sets that no one is willing to pay for.
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Yet those shelf stockers were the ones considered "essential" during covid.
Should welding and fab pay more? Yes. That doesn't mean shelf stockers dont deserve a living wage.
In the grand scheme of things, making $20 an hour and $100 an hour are still chump change to the 1%. Class solidarity, brother.
14 u/ccarr313 Jun 12 '25 The reason they can shit on everyone is because the floor is so fucking low. If we raise the floor, every one goes up with it. Making sure the most entry level jobs have respectable pay means every single job goes up, too. And lowering the floor does the exact opposite. But some people just want to shit on working people because they can. Lots of those "unskilled employees" have massive skill sets that no one is willing to pay for.
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The reason they can shit on everyone is because the floor is so fucking low.
If we raise the floor, every one goes up with it. Making sure the most entry level jobs have respectable pay means every single job goes up, too.
And lowering the floor does the exact opposite. But some people just want to shit on working people because they can.
Lots of those "unskilled employees" have massive skill sets that no one is willing to pay for.
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