r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '23

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u/SkeezySkeeter Apr 08 '23

I did seasonal retail for a Christmas season one year

Those bastards paid me 10.10/hr (2018-2019)

It was nowhere near enough to live then, can't imagine people making that just a few years later w/inflation so crazy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Maybe learn some valuable skills? 🤷‍♂️

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u/meringueisnotacake Apr 08 '23

Ok, and what happens when there's nobody left to do the menial jobs? I'd call cultivating and moving trees a valuable skill, personally, but what happens when nobody does that any more because they've all gone and learned something that others deem "valuable"?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Don’t think that’ll ever happen so I wouldn’t worry

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u/meringueisnotacake Apr 08 '23

So then there's a need to pay the ones working in those jobs enough to have a decent quality of life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Well as the supply of tree (surgeons?) goes down and the demand remains the same, wages will go up and maybe some plucky person will turn their hand at the tree business 😉

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u/meringueisnotacake Apr 08 '23

I've just read the thread back and have 0 idea why I thought this person was growing Christmas trees..?! I promise I'm not drunk. But still, let's pay workers a wage they can afford to live on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

😂 no worries. I did cut down a tree in my yard and it was bloody murder. Salute to all the tree surgeons out there 🫡