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Lamplighter, Paris, 1901 (europe.pub)
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[–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This would be the perfect job for me. Alone, at night, a fixed route, no stress, and yet respected and important for society.
Worked as a mail carrier (on a bicycle) once, which was similar, until they started overloading your bag with junk mail, ads, and packages, and lengthened the routes till it was impossible to make in time, circumventing minimum wage laws.
Yay, Capitalism!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think about this kind of thing often. I feel like we lost something in trying to automate or innovate past simple but essential jobs

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Not only that. My dad had an office job with much higher stakes and salary than me, and it's insane comparing my work load and intensity to what he had.
    Starting with the fact that everyone at his company took 15 minute smoke breaks every hour and started drinking at lunch.

    And to run a program on the computer you had to physically walk to the computer in the basement with a box full of punch cards and feed them to it.

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    • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    @PugJesus

    Gaslighter, London 2025.

    photo of Yvetter Cooper, who famously lied about Palestine Action

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