• Pavidus@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Something that seems immediately apparent to me is that these folks are not fresh high school students. Adults used to work these jobs.

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      And they were a proper fleet who has delivered in the same areas for years, making them extremely experienced in navigating those streets.

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      I can’t even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That’s all I got.

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        teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.

        children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck…

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        How about none ? You’re a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don’t work before your an adult.

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          Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.

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          Work that grocers have passed onto their customers that they used to do themselves:

          • Gathering the groceries from the shelves.
          • Bagging the groceries.
          • Checking out the groceries.
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            Good ol shadow work.

            Ikea is the greatest.

            • You look up the items in inventory and find their warehouse locations
            • You traverse the warehouse, locate the items, and load them on your dolly
            • You take them to the front and self checkout
            • You load them in your delivery vehicle and complete last mile delivery
            • You unbox and assemble the item with minimal instruction and provide your own tools

            All of those used to be paid work, some even being part of the “white glove” service. Instead, we pay with our time, a finite resource.

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                In theory, yes, I agree. But make sure you properly value yourself! You only have so much time to give.

                Though, that was also said about digital games instead of physical ones, that the savings get passed onto the consumer. Not a 1:1 but that one is going swimmingly right now 😅