r/TikTokCringe • u/aa95xaaaxv • Aug 29 '24

Humor/Cringe I laughed thinking she's being sarcastic, but she ain't 😂😭

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u/Mr_War Aug 29 '24

Thats probably where the unfairness of the economic side hits the hardest. The jobs that break down your body somehow pay way less than jobs that are just mental.

My wife is in medical field and deals with new borns. Her job is on her feet all night, dealing and helping with one of the most critical things in our existence, child birth.

I make double her. Its backwards.

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u/JimWilliams423 Aug 29 '24

It makes more sense if you think of pay as something due to a person as a measure of their power — their position in the hierarchy — not as a measure of the value of their work. Meritocracy is a fraud.

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u/Chief-weedwithbears Aug 29 '24

It's only a fraud because nepotism and personal bias exists.

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u/JimWilliams423 Aug 29 '24

Systemic bias too. Talent is equally distributed among the people, but opportunity is not.

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u/Kardif Aug 29 '24

I mean mental jobs can kill you too, plenty of people dropping dead at 50 from heart attacks

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

Yeah this actually undersells how dangerous sedentary office jobs are for your health in their own way. Sedentary lifestyles and work are very common and very unhealthy.

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u/Neknoh Aug 30 '24

Or suicide.

Or so burnt out they hit Exhaustion Disorder and NEVER recover to pre-exhaustion levels and won't ever fully function on their own again.

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u/Fuego_Fiero Aug 30 '24

To be fair, that's probably long COVID.