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Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.
Yes. And it’s really dumb.
Not just in the states either. They do it in Mexico and some of the operators use their job to rip off tourists. You have to make sure they reset the meter before they start pumping your gas.
Mexico, Peru, and New Jersey, USA are 3 places I know still do this.
Oregon does, or did if they stopped.
If you've never seen the disaster some morons have caused at pumps...
I’ve read this response online and have seen online videos, but never met anyone who actually saw any such disaster. I’m not convinced this is at all common
Not necessarily common, but probably common enough.
Looking at you NJ, you ridiculous grift if a state.
That is exactly what it's for, and it prevents a lot of worse problems just by existing. It significantly reduces crime rates by allowing people who otherwise couldn't earn income, and provides a way for ex-cons to successfully reintegrate into society and not relapse, as well as providing low/no skill labor. It gives some a sense of purpose - retirees who physically can't do any other work for example and need something to do.
It is literally there to give people jobs and its a good thing.
This is why I'm in favor of mandating everyone use horse-drawn carriages. Can't let those carmen be out of work, spreading hooliganism
Let’s whip out the spoons and replace our excavators!
If you want convicts to have jobs, fix how society views them so that they’re not pariahs.
Right, this is much more important. We don’t need to require unnecessary jobs for ex-cons to find work, we need to do a better job of reintegrating them into society after they’ve done 5heir time
People downvoting you are very self-centered, they don't understand the importance of a job for lots of people. Until we have UBI, jobs like these will always be necessary.
That money would be better spent sending them to school to learn something useful.
You missed the low/no skill part, didn't you? There is a need for those.
Or are you the kind of scum that believes we all need to "earn" a living. As if every being isn't entitled to exist unless in servitude to the economy. Fuck right off.
There are necessary jobs that are low skill.
Are there enough to satisfy your ghoulish need to make sure everyone is working?
... So you send them to school to learn a skill?
Or to mop the floor. There’s a low skill job that is actually necessary
The rest of the world proves there's no need for people to pump your gas for you. Just about anyone can do that themselves. My point was that if this is the only way these people can be employed then we should instead take the money would they'd be paid for this and pay them to go to school instead so they can acquire the skills the need to get other jobs, whatever those jobs may be. Having them stand by a pump to put gas in people's cars is just a waste of everyone's time and resources. If this is somehow the only job they are capable of doing even with training available then just pay them to stay home. If there aren't enough low skill jobs to go around this is a better solution then making up busy work for people to do.
There are undoubtedly people beginning to say the same thing about supermarket checkout attendants now. That doesn't seem like a good thing to me.