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> A shop clerk used to be a pretty difficult job. Now it's done by people with mental disabilities.

> The growth of the economy is not a tide that lifts all ships

Just a guess, but maybe the person with mental disabilities that are now gainfully employed might disagree.

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Now they, too, may know the transcendental joy of laboring to create wealth for someone else.

True but at least they have a job and some economic freedom. Without that job they would be reliant on other people. I'm not sure I see the problem here actually.

As opposed to creating nothing and being completely reliant on the charity of others and the state ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We shouldn't admonish the mentally disabled for working if they want to. It's good that they have opportunities. We should be critical of societies that state they basically have to work or will die because they're responsible for their own financial security.

The issue is not the mentally disabled though. The issue is that people are being pushed into the absolute bottom tier of the labor pool. The decreasing opportunity for valuable labor wages is the problem.

They may indeed. But when you look around and see your coworkers have mental disabilities, you may begin to wonder if they were pushed up or was the bar lowered and you were pushed down?

That sounds like a "you problem" to me.

Is the “you” the person who was previously a skilled laborer but is now an unskilled laborer?

Yes. Society improves (becomes more productive) and things that were once hard become trivial, it's called progress. Improve along with it or get left behind. We dont' live in a world where you can just go turn a screw on an assembly line for 10 hours a day for 30 years and get a pension anymore.

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