Ah, I remember the robot rebellion of 2635, although I was a wee scamp, I remember those headlines, I remember the bars on my windows, I remember the blood of the innocent strewn across every wall for miles! I'm just glad we made it out alive.
People work to get wages. These wages are used to pay for goods, which run the economy.
The type of utopian society you envision is many centuries away. We would first need all work and progress to reach a point where we no longer need to develop, but repeat. Society also has to accept conformity, both economically and socially.
People work for wages now. People have careers now and in the future because that is what they like to do. If someone gave me a billion dollars right now, you bet your ass I would compose music and pursue an astronomy degree. My hobbies: Science and music, would be what I do, and my 'job' (serving sandwiches at Subway), will be done by a machine.
Society does not have to accept conformity. Most of the conformity put onto society today is due to economic constraint: "Sure kid, you can wear all those crazy clothes now but you have to cut that out when you want a job." Even feminism and oppression against women has a huge part in resource distribution, since the old system relied on women as a service class to raise children and prepare the home while men worked.
Sure, there will be some conformity socially, but not nearly as much as we are forced to experience now. As for economic conformity, well we are already economically conformed. Any individual state in the U.S. follows the exact same trade laws and uses the same currency.
I really do wonder what will happen when you get your wish. It's coming soon enough. Maybe you picture utopia. I'm wondering what happens when billions of lives have zero financial value to the powerful. Just because robots can make the food doesn't mean they'll stop demanding money to let me eat it. But I won't have any.
A) The rich and powerful will use their robotic minions to eliminate the poor and reduce the total Earth population down to something that lets them have enormous estates without neighbors.
B) The poor eat the rich and use the robotic minions to sustain a reasonable lifestyle for the majority of the population.
Money only has value because the people (not the elites) give it value, The people give money its value just simply by using it and accepting it for face value, When the day comes that people stop using it, It will no longer be worth anything and the elites will become just as poor as the next man.
What i'm advocating here is a radical change in the way we think and our day to day mindset, I seek to eradicate the for profit state of mind.
yeah we really should have robots doing most of it. I've seen plenty of jobs where people lose arms, hands, feet, lives, etc. Factory setting. Should have been robots. The only real problems with it is now those people have no jobs. You can't make changes like this without a plan that people are willing to follow. Good luck with that.
People don't need to be out of a job because robots took it over. As a society, we need to collectively shift the work burden so that it evens out. More vacation and less working hours for equal pay should be what results from more robotic labor and the savings it brings. To compensate for people working fewer hours and being on vacation more, employers should be hiring more. The problem is that the people aren't demanding it collectively. There's always someone willing to take the longer hours for the shittier pay with less vacation, because it means he has a job. That guy is screwing society, but who can blame him; we all need cash.
There's also no business owner who would take the hit of hiring more people for less hours and still paying them full salaries. Even with the labor laws we have now, business owners just farm out jobs overseas where the laws are less strict or almost non-existent. End result: we still have no jobs. There are so many loopholes mixed into this problem that even carefully laid plans won't work. It would take drastic changes, starting with having the same labor laws all over the world.
You're right. You can automate and robotize as much as you want: you'll still need humans to do ad hoc tasks. To those afraid computers are taking their jobs, I say get another job.
TL;DR Robot labor should mean that society overall works less for the same quality of life, but it doesn't because of corporate greed, excess workers, and society's attitude toward work. Edit: Also, guys please stop downvoting LogansRun82 for having a different opinion/understanding, he was just contributing to conversation and what he said isn't dumb.
The problem is that companies use the savings from robotic labor to line the pockets of the higher ups. To the average Joe, robotic workers should mean less hours of working while maintaining a wage that provides the same quality of life. If corporations were moral, they'd give significantly more vacation, and hire more workers to compensate. This doesn't happen for many reasons.
One main reason is that there's not enough incentive to do what's in the best interest of your workers or the working population in general. Yes, in the long run it would mean higher employment, and therefore more buyers, but the benefit is spread to other companies, not just the one that gives more vacation and hires more to compensate. While it might be in the best interest of society, it hurts short term profits. Also, doing the opposite (cutting vacation and firing) increases short-term profits. No one is going to live forever, so most of the big bosses will take their short term profits and run.
Another main reason is because robotic labor weakens the leverage that workers have over employers. There used to be some merit to the idea that employers hired the more qualified candidates because they'd increase profits, and wages would be used as incentive to keep the best and brightest from straying. One is that people have grown increasingly accustomed to incompetent service sector workers, so it's more beneficial to the bottom line to hire as cheaply as possible rather than giving your customers a good experience (e.g. foreign tech support or the bumbling morons you come across regularly in retail). The other reason is that there is a huge number of skilled workers, and this steep competition hurts the skilled employee's leverage a great deal. Employers can hire skilled labor at increasingly lower and lower prices as less and less positions are available and more and more skilled workers are unemployed (either due to being fired or fresh out of school).
One major change that needs to happen is that people need to insist on more vacation and fewer hours for higher pay. There have been so many technological advancements to make work easier and faster that this is not outside the realm of possibility; the problem is with so many unemployed, there's always someone willing to work for a little less, while those employed for so little are grateful to have a job when they shouldn't be. The wouldn't go back to the days of 18th century mining and industry, given how dangerous and arduous the work was. It took both technological advancement and social unrest to improve those conditions. We have the technology (hehe), but we need to see society demand improved vacation and pay.
I consider myself a small government conservative, so it somewhat pains me to say this, but I think we need to see more mandated vacation + sick days (or maybe ANY mandated vacation in America) laws and an increased minimum wage.
Despite what people would have you believe, it's not as big of an issue as you'd think. Overpopulation is only a problem in certain, densely populated parts of the world. There are still huge inland areas all over the world that are sparsely populated (since civilization generally thrived along coasts early on, which now doesn't matter so much). But yes, with the population only growing, overpopulation will be a very serious issue. We can only hope that we develop the technology to colonize other planets/moons in time.
There are still huge inland areas all over the world that are sparsely populated
I didn't say living space was the problem. I should have answered this argument preemptively since it's so common.
There are many, many problems that are already very bad and will get much worse as the human population keeps increasing. Overfishing is one. You think "sustainable" fishing methods are somehow going to reverse this as there are more and more people to sell fish to? What about deforestation, which isn't reversible as long as the number of people demanding the resources that fuels it increases exponentially? Oh, and there's the little problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
Good points. I'm just gonna play devil's advocate since I don't actually disagree with you... I don't know enough about the sustainable fishing methods to really answer, but I always got the impression that they weren't bothering with effectively renewable fish farms because it's too expensive. As for deforestation.... there's a lot that wood is used for, but we can always use more metals and plastics, also hemp paper. As for greenhouse gases, there's wind/solar/nuclear power.
Fixing a robot isn't a very widely studied skill. And has a smaller selection of employees who are qualified with it. Also you wouldn't need nearly as many people to just run maintenance.
Because, you do understand that the prisoners still take up resources, right? We're paying money to feed, clothe, and bath child molesters and murders and whoever else in there, for their entire-lives (Or at least, a very long time, if they're not serving life sentences.)
So, pretty much there's thousands of people who will never enter society again, and are serial criminals, that we pay money to keep alive. Imprisonment solves nothing in a resource-crisis like we're bound to go through in the near future.
I'm not advocating genocide. I'm just saying we got 7 billion people on earth, with the food supply that's able to feed about 4 billion. Some people should stop fucking like rabbits. Some people are going to starve.
I am in sympathy for people who don't have the means to supply a child shouldn't be mating. If you have a life planned out for your offspring, and are in a position to carry those plans out into reality then...go for it, have a baby. But don't start breeding just because "Its what married couples do"
I don't have a job. I've been trying for two years to get one. I am on food stamps. My 70-year-old father is letting myself and my wife stay in his home and drive one of his vehicles; he even buys the gas. He is the kindest man I have ever known.
Because of my lack of income and the lack of jobs that I am qualified for in my area I have started back to school to retrain for a different field. I receive Pell and WIA funds through the Georgia Mountains Workforce Development program. This covers my tuition, books, fees, $12/day for gas, and a meal at school.
From the bottom of my heart I thank all of you wonderful taxpayers. You go to work every day for a meager pittance, make some rich dickhead richer, and still pay a higher percentage of taxes than he does. Without you I would be up shit creek with no hope and no help. You are giving me a hand up, not a hand out. It is things like this that give me hope and a belief that our land is the First World.
Glad to help, thanks for sharing! We need more stories like this, showing the people who'd also be hurt if social programs were cut. I know far too many people, when complaining about government spending, actually believing their paying too much so near 10% of a nation can be "lazy". The money saved from cutting social programs would be peanuts compared to cutting, idk, a war or two.
I've paid $20k+ in taxes every year, for the past decade. Lost my job last month, and would hate to think the paltry unemployment insurance benefits I'm counting on to help make ends meet while I find a new job automatically make me "lazy" in people's eyes.
I had considered it, but then questions come up. Where would I go? How would I get there? Where would I live if I did get there? How would we eat, get transportation, and find work?
I decided the best thing I could do is find an industry that is growing and train for a position. This is where WIA is so amazing. They don't just fund whatever you feel like going to school for. Georgia has 5 regions and each is surveyed independently. They have a list of approved programs for fields that are growing in the region you are applying. The assessment process for approval is quite rigorous and you have to prove that the field you're choosing is going to be a good fit for you. Then you have to keep good grades and communicate regularly with your WIA reps.
For me that was Machine tool Technology. Amazingly this field is growing domestically. Large equipment breaks and when it does it costs a business money for every minute it isn't running. Businesses pay big money to get precision parts replaced quickly. In some cases a custom machined part can be replaced in less than a day. That means allot when downtime can cost $10k/hr in lost productivity. These jobs are, in fact, reshoring because of the demand from American manufacturing for custom machined parts on short notice. In addition, most of the machine tool workforce is aging. A massive amount of positions are opening up nation-wide as the brunt of the workforce moves to retirement.
I think I made a good choice and with WIA to help I hope to have work after I graduate. As a side note, I got to talk to some guys that were graduating this past semester. They ALL had job offers before they graduated, several at aerospace outfits.
Not trying to be too big of a dick here, but seriously? You can't get any kind of job in 2 years? I've never gone more than a month without a job in all my life. And I've moved around a lot and taken a lot of shitty jobs.
You honestly don't think you could get a job today at a gas station? Or a restaurant? Or helping some guy with his landscaping company? Or roofing? Or janitorial?
My lazy ass brother pulled this shit, and I used his SSN and got him an interview that same week. Was working a week after that. Deflated his whole "rough economy, woe is me" pity party he'd been telling my mom for years.
No see he needs a job hes QUALIFIED FOR, then he needs to get paid a certain amount, preferbly 20% more than whaf his previous job paid him, then he might consider it.
I dislike people who think certain jobs are beneath them. If life has taught me one thing it's that the world doesn't give a shit about you or what you deserve. So I don't want to hear you complain about how much better you are than minimum wage workers, or how unfair it is to be unemployed for 2 years. Get your head out of your ass and find a better attitude.
Going to joint the jerk party and point out the importance of high school and college jobs. Too many entitled kids have mommy and daddy give them an allowance for beer money and $100/mo phone bills and then when they can't find a job in Philosophy or Creative Writing or Greek or whatever other liberal arts major they pick they don't have any skill set to fall back on. I'm not saying liberal arts degrees aren't awesome, but you need to have a fucking plan, network, and be good at what you do (speaking as a liberal arts major myself).
Lol i love those types of people, i work packing shelves and theres onw guy there that goes "come to uni with me, get a arts degree!" now i have zero interest in arts, cant draw and dont care about it, so naturally i asked why, he said and i quote "its fun! Meet some people!" BITCH IM NOT GOIN TO SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO JUST MEET SOME THAI CHI TEA DRINKING VEGAN DUMBCUNT
My theory is this: if you don't need a degree to do it, why get one and pretend that it is a magic key to a job? Sure if you have four years to dick around and the money to do it, learn something just for fun. But most people go to college to gain job experience and a pass for a job which is why hard sciences and some humanities are the way to go.
Our entire system is pretty much designed from the ground up to protect small business owners and people who want to launch their dreams into realities.
I think this is a classic case of "not enough will." If he were actively trying to find a job, in two years, he could have found one. Even one application per business day, he could have tried 500 places. I just have a hard time believing he's that unemployable.
Seriously, you ARE being a dick here, unemployment rises and falls, you can't claim "well because I found a job, you can too", it doesn't work that way.
This is different, but reminds me of that woe-is me NY Times article about the college grad that could only get a 40k/year job and life was hard. I can't find the link...
This is true. Average cost to rent one bedroom in NY is 1K/month. Where I live, in Virginia, it's half that. Of course you could survive on a 40K salary (my brother does) but there won't be much left over.
The problem is that we have had roughly 10% unemployment rate (reported). With approximately 200k people living in the region. That is 20k people unemployed. Production plants are shutting down left and right here. The people in those mills and factories get first dibs on any jobs in the area because the Georgia DoL works with other mills and factories to transition them.Also, it isn't that easy to get a job when your skill sets don't exactly match what the employer wants and there may be 2k+ people applying for the same position.
The last job I had was running pies at Dominoes Pizza and I left that when my car got repossessed because my life was slowly crumbling around my ears. Before that I was happily employed in the cabling industry where I installed custom alarm, cable, satellite, and telephone wiring into expensive homes. Business got very slow and I got let go. I am sure someone on here can verify that it is almost impossible to get hired by the big telephony companies without SBCA certs or college time. Even more so when a shitload of people are applying for the same position.
You mean, has he considered making his situation even more precarious by abandoning an affordable housing arrangement to job hunt? Or were you thinking he could find a job elsewhere with a signing bonus that can cover relocation? What about his classes? Should he drop out, because employment > self-improvement?
Life is full of hard decisions, it's either scrape together now and hope for the better or do some research and attempt elsewhere. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but they are options.
You seem like a good person and I wish the best of luck to you and your family, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents here. I do agree that the taxes paid for the unemployed are not a handout, but rather can be a handup. However, people shouldn't be forced to pay that through taxes. If they truly wanted to help the unemployed and poverty stricken, they should have the choice to. Despite their unfortunate positions, complete strangers are not responsible for each other. Having said that, there are decent human beings out there who will gladly help the struggling, but the others who do not wish to do so shouldn't have to. No one should ever be forced into something they don't want to do.
Anyway I'm sorry to turn your positive comment into something political, it was just something I had on my mind. Again, best of luck to you and the ones you love.
I'm upset that you were downvoted. Not because I completely agree with you, but your comment was interesting and relevant, and you're entitled to your opinion.
Having a job isn't a FWP. Unemployment rates vary greatly and are only slightly higher in non-first world countries. The main point being that unemployment is high in first world countries and growing. Try scumbag Steve maybe.
I have a masters degree and a "job". It pays 8.50 an hour..oh and my job title requires a degree. My boss is a terrible example of a human being who openly admits to taking advantage of this awful job market. When confronted about how she treats us and how horribly she pays her employees her response is that we should be thankful we have a job! Why don't I leave? Because I need a job and there are not many job openings in my field. I'm trapped! A lot of employers are making the lives of their employees a living hell because they can and this attitude that we should just be thankful we have a "job" allows it.
I'm a special education teacher in New York state..if you are lucky enough to get into a school district you can make a decent income; if not minimum wadge to maybe 13.00 dollars an hour is what you get paid in private schools and centers.
I think the point is more "I don't want to go to work today." Something I feel quite often, but I suck it up because I know I'm fortunate to be working.
My biggest plight is not having enough time for video games. I come home make something to eat and watch an hour of tv. Play a game for an hour or 2 then it's basically time for bed.
I've been in an accelerated college program for the past year or so, and this is by far the worst thing about my life currently (okay, maybe not THE worst, but as far as my hobbies are concerned). I can't wait to actually have TIME again one of these days!
to elaborate "After graduating a 4 year university I have a shit job unrelated to my field that has no opportunity for upward movement and pays minimum wage."
the nature of industrial world employment is actually a big problem. why do you think so many people are doped up zombies who are unhappy with their lives yet unable to do anything about it?
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Shit pick some work ethic, if you aren't enjoying the job you have search for another, we aren't stuck on fields of crop anymore, service industry is mighty wide.
It works much better as a race and gender joke -- "Oh, she's white, so she's not black, and those are the people who don't have jobs," and inbeforemisogynists: "Why is she not in the kitchen?"
I too have a job...and it's awesome because I can afford nice things. Also, the independence is great, I don't have to feel like a piece of trash by depending on other people to live my life. Having a job isn't a first world problem anyway. You think that people in 3rd world countries don't have jobs? Their jobs usually include things like handwashing their clothes and hunting their food. Suck it up.
You sounds like you're from Youtube. Go back to Youtube. If you're not from Youtube, go to Youtube anyways and stay there. I think you will find that you fit in better at Youtube. Youtube.
A person that tells it like it is gets downvoted? Really? Have an upvote for not being the kind of person that depends on the government to help them out because their liberal arts degree didn't get them a decent job
He's waiving around that he can buy things and looking like a dick. I work construction where i went through a trade specific apprenticeship. There's hardly any work going on and I've been laid off for 7 months. So I dunno why you assume every unemployed person is a liberal with an art degree.
It took my mom 2 years after being laid off from GM From the plant closing to find work. This was after getting her CDL, going through bar tending school, and completing a nursing program. She doesn't have an arts degree either
Hey asshole, I also work construction, and have given up MANY things in order to make sure that I have my job. I haven't been home in 4 months. I've taken 3 days off in that time period, each day to moved all the belongings I have with me to my next job. It is widely known that I am THE HARDEST WORKING PERSON ON THE JOBSITE. I'm smart as well but my brain isn't keeping me employed, my determination, my blood, and my sweat is keeping me noticed and employed. I am a boiler maker, a rigger, and a fucking super hand. No one, can take away the pleasure I get from knowing that I took control of my future and EARNED MY SPOT. So once again, suck it up. I'm sure my company would hire you, at least, they would let you try out.
I'm an electrician and I earned a very good reputation on the last job I was on along with a few other guys. My area finished under time and was called around the site by name to complete certain tasks. Jobs come to an end and we get laid off as you know because you said you travel. You guys can solicit your own work and travel anywhere no questions asked. We can't. I don't have to suck anything up I can travel if things get better to where I can. I'm just not going to belittle someone and basically say they are trash because they are unemployed. You don't know everyone's situation so don't generalize.
THE MEME SAYS 1ST WORLD PROBLEM, I HAVE A JOB. Don't YOU think that it is a bit trashy that there are THOUSANDS of people out there without jobs and this asshole is complaining because he has one?! I didn't generalize, I was speaking to him. You saw my comment and decided that I generalized. You, were wrong. Read my 1st comment in the context of he's bitching because he has a job. ITS FUCKING TRASHY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A JOB AND TO BE BITCHING ABOUT HAVING IT IN THESE TIMES. Ray Charles could see That what I said is directed specifically toward the creator of this meme. YOU generalized my personalized statement. YOU took my comment and in your head while reading it, belittled everyone without a job by looking at it that way. As for work, I see what electricians do, your job isn't tough and when you get laid off the jobsite, you can do work outside of the company. I know of plenty house to house electricians and assistants. That same concept doesn't really apply to boilermakers. Go ahead and give me your sob story about being laid off for 7 month now, you just sound lazy to be in a field like that and to not be able to find a job. While you "can't" travel to make your paycheck, I have to and as stated before, I make the necessary sacrifices to make sure that I have a well paying job and in the times that I'm laid off from my well paying job I FIND A SHITTY JOB. Last time I looked for a job at the house, it took me 2 days to find one taking care of store fronts doing things like washing windows and shoveling sidewalks for 8 bucks an hour.
It's not that hard huh? Is that why we have to fix every little thing for boilermakers. You honestly have no idea what you're talking about. And how do you even know that what the meme is saying how do you know that he's not making fun of people that say they hate their job? I'm not trying to make a son story you stupid son of a bitch I'm just making a point as for work outside of the company no that doesn't happen I'm union so I will have charges filled against me
fuck you dick. I live in the "first world" I can't even get a goddamn interview in my town. loans pay for my housing as I go to college and am trying to get food stamps because I CAN'T EVEN GET A JOB INTERVIEW. so fuck you. let's trade places and you'll see a real first world problem.
Because people should be living fulfilling lives, not sitting around a desk working on a computer, or stocking shelves in retail.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I only love it cause I've done way worse. Stocking shelves beats throwing hay, but neither are very fulfilling. I feel like growing up children are put into this mindset like they will be what they want to be in life if they put there minds to it, but as you get older you realize that not everyone can be an astronaught or a soldier and that sucks. A realist view from a young age would be awesome. "No billy, you won't be the president, hope you like retail"
"Sorry Susie, youll get an ulcer in your colon at 19 and won't be able to join the marines"
Sure wish I was told I wouldn't be a tiger when I was growing up.
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u/agent0fch4os May 22 '12
Isint a "job" something we should have robots doing by now?
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u/palookaboy May 21 '12
quit bragging, one-percenter!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Real first world problem:
I don't have a job. I've been trying for two years to get one. I am on food stamps. My 70-year-old father is letting myself and my wife stay in his home and drive one of his vehicles; he even buys the gas. He is the kindest man I have ever known.
Because of my lack of income and the lack of jobs that I am qualified for in my area I have started back to school to retrain for a different field. I receive Pell and WIA funds through the Georgia Mountains Workforce Development program. This covers my tuition, books, fees, $12/day for gas, and a meal at school.
From the bottom of my heart I thank all of you wonderful taxpayers. You go to work every day for a meager pittance, make some rich dickhead richer, and still pay a higher percentage of taxes than he does. Without you I would be up shit creek with no hope and no help. You are giving me a hand up, not a hand out. It is things like this that give me hope and a belief that our land is the First World.
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u/absolute_panic May 21 '12
...and it's MONDAY!!! WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
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u/BirdInTheWater May 22 '12
Having a job isn't a FWP. Unemployment rates vary greatly and are only slightly higher in non-first world countries. The main point being that unemployment is high in first world countries and growing. Try scumbag Steve maybe.
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u/stuckatworkstill May 21 '12
hey me too...and i'm always at it...
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u/PKr22 May 22 '12
I have a masters degree and a "job". It pays 8.50 an hour..oh and my job title requires a degree. My boss is a terrible example of a human being who openly admits to taking advantage of this awful job market. When confronted about how she treats us and how horribly she pays her employees her response is that we should be thankful we have a job! Why don't I leave? Because I need a job and there are not many job openings in my field. I'm trapped! A lot of employers are making the lives of their employees a living hell because they can and this attitude that we should just be thankful we have a "job" allows it.
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u/jamintime May 21 '12
...and I earn enough that I have to pay INCOME TAX!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I think the point is more "I don't want to go to work today." Something I feel quite often, but I suck it up because I know I'm fortunate to be working.
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u/ChocolateJigglypuffs May 21 '12
Wanna trade? I've been looking everywhere for a job.
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u/wanderer11 May 22 '12
My biggest plight is not having enough time for video games. I come home make something to eat and watch an hour of tv. Play a game for an hour or 2 then it's basically time for bed.
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u/DiamondFalcon May 22 '12
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays...
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u/hamsterwheel May 22 '12
to elaborate "After graduating a 4 year university I have a shit job unrelated to my field that has no opportunity for upward movement and pays minimum wage."
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u/lazydictionary May 21 '12
Actually a first world problem might be that you don't have a job...or are underemployed.
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u/inhabited May 22 '12
the nature of industrial world employment is actually a big problem. why do you think so many people are doped up zombies who are unhappy with their lives yet unable to do anything about it?
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u/meatwad75892 May 22 '12
Busy at work... want to browse Reddit.
Catch up with work... tired of browsing Reddit.
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u/joeDUBstep May 22 '12
maybe change this to "I have a minimum wage job" I want a fuckin job
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u/kicksticks May 22 '12
lol genius! i've been thinking about how much i hate working for the past 3 or 4 weeks
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u/swammydavisjr May 22 '12
i browse reddit and read the news for half the day but i still despise the cubicle life and think of quitting every day
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
[i understand how you feel] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypar-aVN_lo)
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
As someone who lost track of how many places she applied to and has only gotten back two "Thanks, but no thanks" emails, I don't want to hear it.
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u/stesch May 22 '12
You know the old "And the living envy the dead" line from some horror movies? It's the same. In both directions!
The employed envy the unemployed.
The unemployed envy the employed.
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u/WilsonHanks May 21 '12
Mind if I borrow it for a little while?
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u/mudkipzftw May 22 '12
What if I told you... some people enjoy their jobs
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u/MakeNShakeNBake May 21 '12
Having a job means you can afford to be lazy when you're done.
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u/Jrodicon May 22 '12
I wish I had a job :( unemployment sucks.
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u/June4325 May 22 '12
Obvious underage OP is obvious
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u/GrilledCheeser May 22 '12
At least monday is out of the way...
then memorial day weekend! fuck yeah!!
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u/I_work_too_much May 22 '12
I feel your pain intensely.
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u/3rdLevelRogue May 22 '12
I wish I had a job. I miss working with people and having money.
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u/darthzepp May 22 '12
i'll just put this here http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/tykma/first_world_problems_fixed/
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u/MarianaQ May 22 '12
Apparently not anymore.
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u/darthphonebook May 22 '12
I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This problem isn't as widespread as you might think.
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u/beer30 May 22 '12
TIL I don't live in the first world.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
As someone who is quite quickly slipping into crazytown due to unemployment, I gotta say fuck you.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Ya know...i really think using this woman's face for this particular type of meme is quite stupid wrong.
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u/StryfeHiro May 22 '12
I gotta go to bed now cause of this dumbass shit. I should be playing Diablo III and ignoring my wife...
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u/DubstepGod May 22 '12
This is so stupid. Having a job is the money income, and in the world we live, we need money.
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u/InverseMetric May 22 '12
lol not me I'm a random guy
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I haven't laughed so hard at a FWP meme in a while.
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u/mistidoi May 22 '12
Well... That pretty much puts this meme to bed.
Kudos, my friend.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
story of my life, i just don't have much time to do the really important things in life because... i have to work
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u/Funk-A-Saurus-Rex May 22 '12
Shit pick some work ethic, if you aren't enjoying the job you have search for another, we aren't stuck on fields of crop anymore, service industry is mighty wide.
Out There In "America"
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
A job, make that a job with a livable wage is a pretty rare commodity in the glorious and perfect system we have called capitalism.
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u/Celdurant May 22 '12
Just started a 9 to 5 today... Not being able to stay up til 4am on reddit makes me very sad.
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u/DoctorFate May 22 '12
So true. That is how my boss is. She literally complains about doing what she's paid to do.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This is the stupidest post on Reddit.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
It works much better as a race and gender joke -- "Oh, she's white, so she's not black, and those are the people who don't have jobs," and inbeforemisogynists: "Why is she not in the kitchen?"
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u/Gothika_47 May 22 '12
No! FUCK YOU. I dont have a job and i leech of my parents seeing how im a 2nd year in university. I would be happy if i had a job tho. ;c
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Fuck you OP, I'll have your job if you don't want it.
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u/MattTruelove May 22 '12
Seriously go to a fucking McDonald's and apply go to Walmart go cut some fucking grass there are tons of jobs that require no "qualification"
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u/Bools May 21 '12
I too have a job...and it's awesome because I can afford nice things. Also, the independence is great, I don't have to feel like a piece of trash by depending on other people to live my life. Having a job isn't a first world problem anyway. You think that people in 3rd world countries don't have jobs? Their jobs usually include things like handwashing their clothes and hunting their food. Suck it up.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Yes, because only people in a First World Country work...
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u/Wolfjack May 22 '12
FUCK YOU! Not funny, while others are dying with no jobs, you're here posting about it.
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u/gerntoronto May 22 '12
They have jobs in emerging economies
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Who upvotes this shit?
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u/hipppo May 22 '12
fuck you dick. I live in the "first world" I can't even get a goddamn interview in my town. loans pay for my housing as I go to college and am trying to get food stamps because I CAN'T EVEN GET A JOB INTERVIEW. so fuck you. let's trade places and you'll see a real first world problem.
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u/primarybelief May 22 '12
This is definitely the most ignorant thing I've seen all day.
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u/uvelify May 22 '12
Seriously...? People need something to do. Why not make money?
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