mirroring real life i guess
sanitation is usually seen as a very low status job, even though if they all stopped working most of us will be riddled with disease within a few years
True. Hey, how long has it been since your city last experienced a garbage strike? Because I think everyone in Toronto remembers the 2009 one vividly enough that they think twice before taking sanitation workers for granted. Shit was nasty.
i think the last actual strike was maybe in 2005?
they did threaten one last year though, but i think the local council capitulated
the council is local government to be clear
Good soap was hard to make for a long time so if you had a dirty job you were probably dirty most of the time. Which means rich people were unlikely to invite you to nice things. Which then means you get underpaid and it becomes a vicious cycle.
Also why are sanitation workers and street sweepers always “untouchables” in every setting? Y’all those are important jobs you need those people
mirroring real life i guess
sanitation is usually seen as a very low status job, even though if they all stopped working most of us will be riddled with disease within a few years
I think "sanitation worker" and "postal worker" are the only non-cop jobs that have been unionized in every city and town I've ever lived in.
similar here
i was talking about public perception though
True. Hey, how long has it been since your city last experienced a garbage strike? Because I think everyone in Toronto remembers the 2009 one vividly enough that they think twice before taking sanitation workers for granted. Shit was nasty.
i think the last actual strike was maybe in 2005?
they did threaten one last year though, but i think the local council capitulated
the council is local government to be clear
the thin green line
Underpayment your important workers is a efficient social technology. It means you can have more of them and improve your society.
It is perverse but profitable
Because people can't do anything but copy Indian caste system roles, just with a different set of people in each caste.
This hierarchy implies there's more sanitation workers than peasants/proles. This society literally needs to be less shit.
As far as I get it, in actual caste systems untouchables as the lowest cast weren't like the most common cast.
Because that's how it's been in some real caste systems
Because nobody wants to do that kind of work, so it gets shoved off on those least able to resist
Also in some cultures metal workers were considered untouchable for some reason? Maybe they had to deal with harmful chemicals or something...
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Good soap was hard to make for a long time so if you had a dirty job you were probably dirty most of the time. Which means rich people were unlikely to invite you to nice things. Which then means you get underpaid and it becomes a vicious cycle.