Workers often have a very limited range of choices when it comes to where they want to work. Even in a capitalist economy, a worker’s choice of employment is only bound by the education that that person has achieved. Believing that we are the products of our past and our education, employers seek this as justification to the choice in which their workers make for employment. I believe that they are partially true, and partially wrong. Indeed, no worker should be employed to a position that he/she cannot handle. This not only foolish, but it is also dangerous, depending on the occupation. Another argument for employers is that people who have good jobs have worked hard to obtain those good jobs, in their education and careers. There are holes in this argument. It insinuates that everyone who has occupied a high-level position had deserved it, when we know that there are some cases where people have been hired due to affiliation with another high-level member of a corporation. It also suggests that people with low-wage or entry-level positions are in there situations because they never tried hard enough or were just plain lazy. This line of thinking never takes into account the fact that there are many hard workers who, due to unfortunate circumstances, have not had the opportunity to explore all options. In this society which strongly encourages education, we know that all schools are not created equal, even amongst schools in the same district. Take myself for an example. I came up through the
Sunday, October 12, 2008
In the Defense of Workers
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I agree in this posting of how workers choices of work are very limited due to the education that our work environment requires us to have. However, as stated if we think about this from a management standpoint the company would be foolish if they hired someone incapable of handling the line of work. So saying this, no one is ever hired that is incapable of that job, right? Wrong, in most cases, especially in America, its all about who you know. Yes there are jobs that it does not matter who you know you are never going to be able to get them if you are not credited with the right credentials for example doctors. But the positions I am referring to are high management positions that involve pretty much no work, this due because they outsource the actual work or they hire someone to do the work and pay them a small wage. Following up on the education not being equal, this is true. But viewing this situation from another standpoint does our economy base what type of person will get these high management jobs? The prices of good educations are extremely high and a regular ol joe will not be able to take advantage of the "better" education even though he/she might be a better qualified person in the workforce. One could say our economy brings in the "same" people because they draw from the higher end of education in which a large percentage of the population cannot afford.
I agree with fadom87 that there were holes in the argument that people who have good, high position jobs had worked very hard to get into the position. Yes, this may be true in the past but in the world today, we may also never know the truth behind it. As I had said in my post and comments before, the world had become a monstrous thing today. Everybody had become unfair to each other. Based on my knowledge and observation, inside every single person in the world, there is the capitalism value whether we notice this or not. Nowadays, everybody is greedy. The greediness pushes away the humanity without considering it having negative effects. The world had become full of unfair things as we step from day to day. Massive destruction had been made by capitalism until they invades our moralities. The opinion that people who do not have good jobs are lazy and not being a hardworking worker should be thrown away because we have to consider that people may be helped by other person that are powerful. The world is full of unfair things that are irreversible and who are we to deny it?
One question that I came to my mind is that are we free to choose our own job, or we are forced to choose the job because there is no other choice? Looking generally at today's world condition, I dare say that we are forced to choose the job. We can see, for example, from the movie Life & Debt, the Jamaicans work at the cloth factory not because they want to; it is because they have no other choice. If not, they would die starving with their kids. Yes, it is true that the world out there is very competitive. People chasing education just to get a place in the working world. This because they have no choice. In another word, they are forced to make the choice; to get the best education just to get a work. It had become a stereotype in this world to do so. Who made us limited to our own choice? Capitalism.
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