I always trip on how working at McDonald's is seen as something shameful and degrading in America. Because it pays a living wage in Australia it's seen as a respectable career path young people can pursue if they're not sure where else they fit in, like the military is in the US. https://t.co/c3ghfYB7s4

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 8, 2020

Same in most other civilized countries. Working at a gas station or convenience store in Germany isn’t seen as disgraceful as it is by the “educated” here. I wonder about the causality of it all, though.

I mean, I don’t think it worked quite in the way Caitlin is talking about, but the result was the same: the “educated” spurred by neoliberal capitalists found it acceptable to derogate less educated workers, even referring to them as “unskilled,” thus justifying the wish to pay them far less.