@7Wannabe5
Ha, if everyone had to clean the toilet, perhaps people would be more aware of the condition in which it was left.
Getting out the proverbial wide paintbrush: Indeed, people don’t want gross jobs that pay poorly with no benefits. Now if that same job is well-compensated, it is a different story. (One exception would be mountain towns where many people have multiple low-paid service jobs despite being well-educated. The person waiting tables, cleaning a motel room, and/or operating the liftline may very well have a PhD.) More opportunities seem to be available to men due to physical strength for labor. Also, note that women and children being raised by single mothers are more likely to experience poverty. And being a single parent without involvement from the other is more common and acceptable.
As many blue-collared jobs are being automated or exported to countries where labor costs are low, service jobs are the only option. In general, people don’t want to pay more for goods and services, nor do mega-corps want to decrease profits, so that employees can have living wages and not need to depend upon government “handouts.”
@Alphaville
Yes, past remedies to solve class inequities have not been without problems. Just for fun, I searched where the US falls in relation to social mobility:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... countries/ The US is ranked 27th in social mobility. Denmark is first.
Educator rabbit hole: Third grade (age 8) is typically a transitional year. Most students have mastered basic concepts and are beginning to apply these skills in order to learn. Ability for abstract thought starts to during this time. Some students will go through this stage earlier, second or even first grade, while others lag behind. As students progress in school, the gap widens and outliers’ frustrations can increase. Lack of choice and rote memory tasks begin to feel insulting at this stage too. No surprise that many kids start to dislike school at that point. (This is also the age most kids are identified and placed in Special Education or Gifted and Talented.)