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Originally Posted by The Palimax
Hyperbole is fun, right? WHEE!
Once again, it has to be said: The dealers who mock $16/hr as some sort of insult clearly don't understand how truly fortunate they are to have the jobs that they have -- considering that (based on the qualifications for poker dealer alone) they likely wouldn't have the opportunity to make $16/hr elsewhere if they lost their dealer job.
Ok, I'm to the point where I really don't want to waste any more time on you.
Advertise any position at any wage, you'll get thousands of applicants. That's what happens in a desperate economy with millions of unemployed people scraping to get by.
Welcome to America, circa 2011, the glorious land of opportunity, god help us all.
And you believe this justifies slashing wages, treating employees like disposable cogs, and denigrating true job skills to the ultimate vanishing point.
So what about union jobs? The backbone of the middle class for two generations?
What about professional jobs? The dreams of the middle class for its children for equally long?
There is no wage structure that cannot be gutted, no profession that cannot be disrespected, no job that cannot be replaced by an army of sweatshop workers on starvation wages.
And you know what?
It is utterly irrelevant.
At the end of the day, quality speaks for itself.
My customers know the difference between an assembly-line job-filler and a true committed lifelong professional.
It speaks for itself.
You, sir, refuse to acknowledge this difference, and you do so because you have an agenda in this argument that is hostile to labor -- and especially to he idea of good pay for good labor. But rest assured: you do not speak for my customers, my friends, my co-workers or even my bosses.
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