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Neither is garbage bin collection*, but there's still people doing it.

*insert locally-relevant pariah job here



This is actually a really interesting concept, I was channel-flipping once and saw a programme about recycling where people doing things like retail work were taken to a recycling centre to learn about the process doing the job first hand. One of the girls on the programme's first reaction to the line where rubbish was sorted was along the lines of "I'm not a dirty person like you, why do I have to touch the rubbish?". Bearing in mind she would have probably have been paid less and was from the same area and background as the people she was dismissing as "dirty".

The way we stigmatise "dirty" jobs is a bit weird, in the above scenario the "dirty" job would have likely paid better and is definitely more essential to society. It really stuck with me how the girl in the programme didn't just dismiss the job as dirty, but the person doing the job too as though taking a better paid but physically less pleasant job is somehow a dishonourable thing to do. This isn't a class thing either, both people in this scenario were from a working-class background so I don't think this is an issue of class-based snobbery.


Garbage bin collection is more useful to society than boobs pics.




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