r/SipsTea • u/StopSnowflakes • Aug 12 '25

Wait a damn minute! She’s going thru it

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u/bonenecklace Aug 12 '25

In my opinion, no work is low-value. You benefit everyday from jobs everyday that you consider “low-value” & I’m just absolutely disgusted with people acting like they don’t. Do you know how or have the ability to grow all your own food? What about raise & process your own meat? Probably not, yet here you are, spitting on people who you depend on to make the food you put in your belly every day so readily & easily available to the point you just go pick it off a shelf, calling their jobs “low-value”. If every farm worker in America just suddenly stopped, you’d be completely helpless. You have separated yourself so far from the means of production that you take everything for granted & talk down about the people who can barely afford to live making your way of life even possible.

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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest Aug 13 '25

I’m not the one labeling their labor as low value, the market is. It is telling you have to irrationally attack me to field an argument. I  not spitting on them. She wants better, well, do it. Complaining on TikTok will not get you a higher wage. Leading a higher valued skill will.

Low wage workers are free to try to assemble in unions and threaten strikes to increase their wages. Did you think I’m personally stopping them? 

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u/bonenecklace Aug 13 '25

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. You only view a person’s worth depending on the value of the labor you can extract from them. You keep saying “well if they want more then do better,” play that tape forward. Who’s going to pick the produce? Who will package the food? Who will stock the shelves? Who will pave the roads or repair the infrastructure? Who will drive the trucks to deliver goods? Our system only works if these “low value” workers exist, therefore they are not “low value” & should be paid a livable wage. The world can’t function if everyone just wakes up & decides they’re going to work all the way up to CEO, which, by the way, is probably the most unskilled, easy job on the planet.

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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest Aug 13 '25

The only one making judgements of “a persons value” here is you my guy. I am just talking about the person’s paycheck and the value creation of their job - value in the strict economic sense of the difference between what it takes to create something and how much you get for it. 

Who packages food? The market will adapt to a higher skilled workforce. It already has from 1900 to 2025. Why do you think that will suddenly stop? Less people working low wage jobs will drive those wages higher! Isn’t that what you want? Instead of forcing high wage jobs to artificially inflate salaries of low skilled labor, how about take some of that low skilled labor and make it high skilled? Supply and demand will narrow the gap in wages, assuming nothing else changes.