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I agree with your points about unfairness, and that laborers are much more deserving of time off than office workers. But I wouldn't characterize it as class warfare. In most cases, when physical labor doesn't get performed, people notice. There are consequences that ripple out, affecting other people or systems. In most cases, when office work doesn't get performed, people don't notice. Things just stay the same. Th…
Business don't give a shit about workers and this only reinforces that belief. This is a thin facade of caring about workers in that only the ones that don't really matter are treated well. IMO that's what makes this class warfare. It's all the people with cushy high paying jobs that get cares for, and all the others get shat on
> The system rewards cheaper and faster. But that's an issue of (primarily financial) incentives, not sociocultural biases.
Abusing other workers is a common phenomena at all levels of a company. Low level team leads (line/operations managers) are almost always of the same "class" as the people under them. They almost always ascend from those lower ranks.
In any given instance of abuse, there may be other factors. But there is always a zero sum financial incentive to do so - to exploit others to benefit oneself.
To be clear, I'm not in any way defending CEOs or any other executives. As a category, they are grossly, inexcusably overcompensated for the value they deliver. I'm just saying that the issue is systemic, pervasive.