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Originally Posted by Resurrection
Race to the bottom continues. More decent paying jobs at risk, and so many here so quick to clamor and say "lock em out and have businesses bid on it". Great, now we can have people on minimum wage delivering and sorting out mail. What can go wrong?
I'd love to see some of your reactions if someone came in to your place of work and offered to do your job for minimum wage. But I guess everyone here is a Doctor or Lawyer right? Everyone here is completely irreplaceable?
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You're totally off base here. They're decent paying jobs alright, but they're unnatural, the barriers for entry, exit and competition are artificial. They pay well because they are artificially insulated from the market by the Government.
What education, expertise or experience does one require to sort and carry mail?
See the McExample above, those jobs are being liquidated, sure, why? Because they arent protected by a Governing body. Why is that? Because you cant.
If all McDonald's employees unionized McDonalds could simply fire them all and replace them. Sure, it'd suck for a bit as they had to train all of these new people but at the end of the day the core essence of that job remains the same: "Literally anyone can do it."
The barriers for entry and exit are non-existent. The only difference with Canada Post is that they've created artificial barriers.
If you do something that anyone can do then you are by definition replaceable and especially so if the demand for what you do is on a declining trend.