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optimalsolveryesterday at 7:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

I find it hard to believe the kids of the Swiss elite would be cleaning sewers if not for the low pay.


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mrtksnyesterday at 7:09 PM

No no, they would have totally done it if the immigrants didn’t suppress the wages and the pay was %15 higher. Now they need to do some office jobs for 5 times the pay since the unemployment rate is %3. There are no Swiss sitting around and not cleaning the sewers because the pay was too low, it will have to fetch workers from other industries.

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Saline9515yesterday at 7:39 PM

I grew up at the border. A friend, who wasn't the brightest of the bunch, found a job to flip burgers at McDonalds after highschool. He was paid a salary higher than the French median wage. Not all Swiss are "elite", far from it.

joe_mambayesterday at 7:06 PM

Switzerland has onlite elite kids? What do all the Swiss with <80 IQ do for a living? They're probably not gonna get a job at ABB, Google, UBS or ETH.