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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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I think the thing is that very few people would disagree that, in these difficult times, having a job, of any sort, is generally beneficial. The problem (and this is definitely a problem for the left) is that being grateful for a job doesn't mean that people should put up with degrading, underpaid and unsatisfying work. Ok, there isn't that dream job for everyone, and I think it's definitely healthy for everyone to put a bit of time in in crappy jobs (I've brushed warehouses, served bars, delivered papers, whatever) but that by no means means that it is the ideal-case scenario that the majority of people hate their jobs. Having just left a job that had minimal prospects, 'fair' wage and hideous colleagues, I'm definitely all in favour of... anything other than what I was doing. My main problem with that particular job being that I know lots of fully trained IT people who'd kill for the job I was doing, and it's entirely unfair that thanks to my ability to chat shit I was given the job over umpteen more qualified people.
THE POINT is that it's always worth striving for better, because we really don't live in an ideal world. The corrolary of this being that
just because there's a recession on doesn't mean that everyone should start veering further right.
Obviously, I'm not suggesting that one or two posts on the internet is immediately an admission of being neo-Schutzstaffel, but centre-right employment rhetoric is precisely the sort of thing the left needs to very explicitly shout about (which is what Drone intimated then had the 'oh, it's the internet' thing, which I can sympathise with).