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In reply to the discussion: No cashiers, please: Futuristic supermarket opens in Mideast [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)including wasting energy on resentment of wealthy people instead of focusing on making work, nonwork, and incomes all better.
All my favorite cashiers valued what they did and were proud of being good at it. It took a lot of time to get good in those days, and they were valued for what they did, being good was rewarded with higher pay, and altogether they were happy at work.
Not so much now. jobs dumbed down, pay and benefits not so good, sometimes poverty level. Easily replaceable but valued anyway? Not so much by a long shot. Employers and customers no longer know or care who could once ring up 50 items without having to check a price. But what remains is standing all day 5 days a week, for years.
This is no place to stop, to settle for. Yuck!
What comes next can be better in a number of ways and should be. For most will be. Humanity has never been so healthy, comfy and rich! More coming too, but needs to be handled better.
What does come next? Btw, we're in transition now. Always painful, exciting for some, but never the end,