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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
The problem is not that Amazon and Walmart and Barnes and Noble hire a lot of part time employees, those jobs have always existed, but that the high number of people without high school degrees are working those jobs to try and make a living. Those jobs were never meant to be jobs to make a living, they are suppose to be part time jobs.
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That's because those types of jobs
used to be full time jobs (mostly - always a part-time slot or two for evening and weekend shifts) that you could live on, at least modestly and without having to choose between food and bills. Started changing in the 80s, though, 'til it's now routine to dump full-time employees and hire part-timers (sometimes even the same person, and even in unionized shops :/) for almost all non-manager jobs (and even some of them, if there are multiple tiers).