The case for good jobs — and why they're good for business too | Zeynep Ton

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Many of the jobs that keep the world running — like cleaning bathrooms, picking up trash, caring for the elderly — pay so poorly that workers can barely make ends meet. Nonprofit leader Zeynep Ton is intent on changing that, showing why everyone wins when companies pay their people livable wages and offer opportunities for growth.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.8	I'm your host Elise Hugh.
0:16.7	MIT Management Professor Zaynepton has a thought-provoking take on work that really stood out to our Ted audience when they heard her
0:25.0	for the first time. But don't take it from me. We will let a Tedster introduce this idea.
0:30.5	There's no work that is beneath humans.
0:32.7	What's beneath humans is to not be able to have decent pay, not be able to have decent
0:36.9	working conditions.
0:37.9	And I think rather than thinking about how to eliminate entire categories of jobs that support
0:42.4	people's lives and families, we should be thinking
0:44.6	about how to make the jobs better and I felt like it was such a good counterpoint to this fantasy
0:48.5	where like a whole universe of working class work is just going to get wiped out.
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