Current Events > why is it ok to look down on service workers?

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this is pretty mainstreamed in American culture and it is quite disturbing, there is nothing wrong with making the industry and many people live decently off of it.
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Long-held societal attitudes regarding class, gender, and race, mainly.
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it's not; a lot of people are just assholes.
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Yeah I never understood how so many people can degrade a person, and then demand a service from them.

Completely pathetic.
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Entitlement and privilege
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It isn't considered ok, but it's a combination between people just being assholes and the workers being forced to put up with it and kiss ass.
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Because Americans pretend to value work, but what they really value is money. However, because they have to rationalize why some people are obscenely rich, they assume that it must've taken tons of hard work and intelligence (with no luck involved), therefore the assumption is that people who haven't gotten rich must be lazy and/or stupid. Also, the "customer is always right" attitude factors into this for the service industry. I'm sure tipping also plays a role in that it gives people a god complex in that they decide a significant portion of the worker's pay.
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i seem to value them, wouldn't have any taco bell without someone working in the kitchen.
plus it's a job. it's better than not having one.
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