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As @KMC said, you are being a bit disingenuous here. The vast majority of actual job growth has been menial healthcare jobs.
I do work in the service sector in a way I suppose, but I mostly do onsite product marketing. Depends on how you define "service."
I'm not necessarily saying it's an apocalyptic scenario, though it may well turn into one if we don't course correct somewhat soon. What I'm saying is that my personal experience and outlook on economic participation is getting more and more bleak.
Debatable. There's 400k more RNs than there were ten years ago. I'd say being an RN is no more menial than being an onsite product marketer.
I think it's pretty unambiguous. Do you grow crops? Do you extract resources from the earth? Do you produce any physical goods?
Have you spoken to RNs? One of my close friends is one. It's extremely menial, if by menial you mean physically demanding and focusing on servicing other people directly.
My mother wasn't home most evenings when I was between ages 4 and 7 because she was going to night school to become an RN, which paid more than my dad's job as a machinist. No, they aren't doctors, but most of the menial work you describe is done by Aides, LPNs, Medical Assistants, orderlies, and housekeepers. You don't need a degree to empty bedpans. I doubt the state has any mandatory training requirements for whatever you do, but you don't seem to consider it menial.
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Most Americans are already employed in servicing other people directly! I don't think that most Americans would be working a menial job if they had to walk around rather than sit at a desk to do what it is they do.
Isn't this almost tautologically true? Jobs aren't supposed to be not in the service of helping meet the needs of others. I suppose "subsistence farmer" doesn't do that directly, but as far as I know, nobody is making paperclips qua paperclips in capitalism, but because people are buying paperclips.
Maybe if you have a command economy and a five year plan for paperclip production regardless of paperclip use.
I simply mean that 80% of Americans work in the service sector. They aren't manufacturing physical goods. They're not drilling for oil. They're not raising crops. They're not framing houses. They're making marketing campaigns for clients. They're writing B2B SaaS platforms. They're providing healthcare. Etc.
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