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de-skilled McJob equivalent workers = Outsourced (often Indian) workers that are paid peanuts and who consequently don't give much of a shit about the quality of their work.

Elance with its screen recording feature = the equivalent of stocking frames



What is wrong with mcdonalds level jobs? A mcdonalds doesn't mean that a high end restaurant cannot exist. They both fill two very different roles.


There's nothing wrong with non-high end hamburger restaurants. The problem with McJobs is that they are designed to disenfranchise and maximize the fungibility of the people who work their so that their wages can be driven even below subsistence levels.




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