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Originally Posted by 4X4
Speaking of garbage, the garbage truck just went by and it reminded me of your disapproval of technological advancement. That automatic arm picking up the bins must grind your gears. I wonder how many kids' dreams are shattered because they can no longer grow up to be a garbage bag slinger. Probably the same amount of kids that are bummed they'll never run a till at McDonalds. I suppose they'll have to learn to operate a spatula instead, and I'm sure the ~100 guys that used hang on to the back of the truck and pick up bags are enjoying other, less crappy work at the City.
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Do you think maybe those 100 guys are driving the blue and green bin trucks instead? The city is a bad example to use, they actually treat their union employees well, and don't like cutting jobs since they understand that when it hits the fan, they need their employees. If they did infact cut jobs, and the city raised our taxes in spite of that, then yes I would have an issue. I don't like when jobs are cut if it is only to increase profits for the gain of the owners who don't need more instead of passing those savings on to the consumers. If after reading my posts you can't accept that that has a negative trickle effect on the economy as a whole, I'm not sure if you'll ever be open to seeing things from a different view.
A lot of people grow up wanting to be something other than a garbage man, a fry guy, or any other labour worker. Fact of the matter is sometimes people end up in situations where they have to take those jobs, and at the end of the day the companies that employ those people need those people to make money, companies like macdonalds continually abuse government programs like the temporary foreign worker program by keeping their wages low, which imflates their already enormous profits higher then the owners of that company could ever need or hope to spend. There is only so much profit a company needs to make. If they are going way above that by keeping people below the poverty line and wasting people's tax dollars there's something that needs to be fixed in the system, because it is failing those workers and us taxpayers whether we eat there or not. All the while hurting our economy in a way that can't be fixed unless things change.