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Is there paying ethical work for someone with little skills?

I dropped out of school like an idiot, and some other stuff, and have been stuck doing unethical work to pay the bills. Basically, anyone willing to hire me has myriads of ethical issues. It has caused me to be labelled as a job hopper, and it makes it hard to find actual good work, because those places see me as a job hopper. By unethical, I include stuff that causes musculoskeletal disorders which by far and large is a very common consequence of the repetitive nature of work. I have a suspicion that it is to make workers dependent of the healthcare system. It has been experimentally verified that you need rest days between muscular exercise, and yet most employers that give out physically intensive work expect you to work 5 days a week. Jobs could easily be made better by just giving the worker multiple assignments to prevent…


I dropped out of school like an idiot, and some other stuff, and have been stuck doing unethical work to pay the bills.

Basically, anyone willing to hire me has myriads of ethical issues. It has caused me to be labelled as a job hopper, and it makes it hard to find actual good work, because those places see me as a job hopper.

By unethical, I include stuff that causes musculoskeletal disorders which by far and large is a very common consequence of the repetitive nature of work. I have a suspicion that it is to make workers dependent of the healthcare system. It has been experimentally verified that you need rest days between muscular exercise, and yet most employers that give out physically intensive work expect you to work 5 days a week. Jobs could easily be made better by just giving the worker multiple assignments to prevent overuse injury.

Then there is the massive amount of pollution. Fumes and dust are extremely common in unskilled work. There is plastic, dirt, metal, pesticides, corrosives, and on and on. The consequences include cancers of all sorts, lung damage, heart disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's; they are all the cost of doing business and are taken advantage of by the American healthcare system to bankrupt individuals.

Mandatory healthcare made the problem worse. It creates an unfree market in healthcare, where the sellers get to set the price.

Then there is the unethical nature of the products being made. Pretty much any product manufactured since the dawn of the industrial revolution.

I am pretty sure we live in hell.

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