• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    Define status. All work has value. A janitor is just as important as a nurse or software developer.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t disagree, but hoo boy so do most human beings - especially in the modern West where we have a ghost story called meritocracy. Your example tells me you see it too, so I’ll skip the awkward attempt at nailing it down with a definition.

      Actually, I do disagree a bit. I wish people took me seriously IRL. I don’t need anything more than that though.

    • I disagree.

      It doesn’t really matter whether you have a Janitor available every day or just one day every week.

      But you will really notice if you have a surgeon available every day or just one day of the week.

      Please note that I explicitly don’t have the opinion that janitors aren’t important. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t exist and noone would pay for them.

      But saying that they are just as important as a surgeon just simply isn’t true.

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        10 months ago

        But saying that they are just as important as a surgeon just simply isn’t true.

        Yeah, but I never said that. I said “janitors are just as important as nurses and software engineers.”