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Hopefully the way I phrased it puts a point on why job losses are bad.

There are no “bad” jobs - just labor that needs to be done, with a commiserate price. If the labor is too difficult to find at a price, the price goes up. You can’t artificially increase the price without losing jobs.

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> There are no “bad” jobs

What about fentanyl dealer? Hitman? Psychologist for a social media or tobacco company? Telemarketer?

I’m not suggesting we don’t outlaw illegal activities. I’m saying for legal enterprises, stuff needs to get done. Bad jobs are in the eye of the beholder. A lot of people love delivering for door dash vs. working retail.

How many delivery drivers are you friends with? Ever bought them a tank of gas or a tire because they can't afford it? I have; they might prefer it to the soul-suck of retail, but that doesn't make it anything like a good job.

Everyone has complaints. I’d rather be working retail than in the fields 500 years ago, the mill 200 years ago, or as a manual human calculator 100 years ago. Or maybe some would disagree! Labor needs to be done. There is no utopia - in a socialist economy there are very few who get to hold the clipboards, everyone else works the fields or the factories.

Which jobs have you worked?

he is talking of economically bad jobs not morally bad jobs

And those are economically good jobs?

I am not making a judgment on that, I was just pointing out that your counter-examples weren't really relevant to the point OP was making.

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