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		everdrive on June 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling wi... I think the low status and the low pay of a janitorial job makes it pretty hard for a lot of people. Higher-paying, higher-status IT work has a different set of problems: meaninglessness, drudgery, and cognitive-dissonance.

marginalia_nu on June 26, 2024 [–]

Worth noting the comment is specifically about alienation, not which job is better across all axes.

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