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Comment by 123yawaworht456

1 year ago

I don't spit at the people who do those jobs, I spit at the people who think those jobs are 'amazing opportunities'.

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dirtmerchant  1 year ago

Caregiving is an amazing opportunity. It is life-changing for the person receiving the care. It is fulfilling and soul-affirming for the person delivering the care.

  • dns_snek  1 year ago

    If people agreed with your view that it's an "amazing opportunity" then nursing homes wouldn't be catastrophically understaffed.

    Of course that doesn't take away from anyone's enjoyment of that line of work, it is truly important, but it's not something that the vast majority of people see as an "amazing opportunity".

jfengel  1 year ago

For the people in countries that still have a high birth rate, they usually are amazing opportunities. Wealthy countries are a lot richer than poor ones, and people will take jobs we scorn.

Unfortunately, we also scorn the people who would want to do them. We set very low immigration limits, and we pay the people who do those jobs (even native ones) very poorly.

So these jobs are simultaneously "amazing opportunities" and "abusive".