In 2022, 31-year-old Maggie Perkins quit her eight-year teaching job and got a job at Costco. She doesn’t regret the decision, and she’s never been happier. Here’s a look at a day in the life working at Costco.

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    A failed society of fools. Where there is a shortage of educators and doctors because the capitalist model is directed towards meaningless individualism.

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      While I agree with the sentiment, my wife was a teacher for over a decade and the workload is insane. Easily 60+ hour weeks. At some point she burned out and took a normal job that pays better and works her less. She wishes teaching wasn’t such an insane profession but it is so…capitalism it is.

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          You can work 40 as a teacher, but then you’re prolly really bad at your job as it takes more than 40 to be competent in the current system. The bar is very low unfortunately and there are tons of teachers who phone it in.

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        However, there is a high probability that your wife has trained more than a hundred people who have important roles in society today. That’s worth more than a rich wage and it makes sense to society. If we all wanted to make $60k from cosco we’d be living in the movie idiocracy.

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            But that makes things better for us average poors. Our plutocratic overlords would never allow such nonsense.

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      In this case it’s probably because teachers are underpaid. Costco happens to be one of the few known for treating their employees well and going beyond legal requirements.

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        That in any case, and not just that. Whether or not teachers or doctors get payed, ,basically we needs them, or we’re back in the stone age. While Cosco’s employee is not worth a damn for progress.