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Why do you believe service sector jobs are not "real jobs"?

Because they pay under $20/hr, offer no health insurance, dental, no vacation, termination at will, and little possibility for promotion or advancement of skills. That and the balance of power is entirely skewed towards some MBA in a monkey-suit sitting in a corp HQ palace hundreds or thousands of miles away, who only looks at numbers on a spreadsheet or pretty pictures on a powerpoint that represent the lives of human beings. It's not only coders who should never be called "resources"—the same basic decency applies to all humans.

Because they pay under $20/hr, offer no health insurance, dental, no vacation, termination at will, and little possibility for promotion or advancement of skills.

Half of this is mostly true, the other half is mostly not true. Tons of major companies in the service sector offer their employees (even their part-time employees) health, dental, and vacation. And employment should pretty much always be termination at will, unless the employee is under a contract and can't leave whenever they want, or is fired due to a protected class, whistleblowing, etc.

That "should" is definitely debatable, and mostly culturally informed rather than reasoned. Balance of power and marginal impact of a termination is skewed against the individual.

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