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[michaelt]

> And what’s the alternative?

Perhaps that office with 50 programmers paid $75/hour could stretch to paying their 2 cleaners $20/hour instead of $15/hour?

[el_benhameen → michaelt]

Sure. But you’re not going to make up the difference just by increasing wages. Unemployment is at 3.4%—there’s not some huge glut of unemployed people waiting in the wings to clean offices at $20 an hour.

[anonymouskimmer → el_benhameen]

> "there’s not some huge glut of unemployed people waiting in the wings to clean offices at $20 an hour."

16 - 18 year olds. They can do the job after school.

[toomuchtodo → anonymouskimmer]

Teens don't want these jobs, and with sufficient family support, opt out instead.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/21/after-dropp...

[anonymouskimmer → toomuchtodo]

Well sure, who does? I didn't want the job as a busboy the summer I turned 18. I had it because my parents made me.

[toomuchtodo → anonymouskimmer]

I too worked as a busboy for a single day in my teens. My parents did not force me to get a job. I won't force my kids to when they're old enough. n=1

Hard work doesn't prepare you for success. Connections, opportunity, and wealth to fall back on do.

[anonymouskimmer → toomuchtodo]

> "Hard work doesn't prepare you for success. Connections, opportunity, and wealth to fall back on do."

Hell yeah, I learned this the hard way. The child labor isn't for success, it's for spendin' money.

[gymbeaux → anonymouskimmer]

Wait but nobody doing that kind of work makes anywhere near $20/hour. Retail store managers are still trying to get that.

[el_benhameen → anonymouskimmer]

I guess I would rather my kids use that extra time for, I dunno, learning extracurriculars or rest. But sure. Now what about all of the retail, foodservice, manufacturing etc. jobs that can’t be done during after school hours?

[anonymouskimmer → el_benhameen]

Tongue in cheek there are a couple of options:

1) Businesses change their work hours to fit the school schedule.

2) Schools operate in shifts.

[el_benhameen → anonymouskimmer]

Third shift high school is the stuff of nightmares.