It makes some excellent points about how pathetically underpaid some jobs are and how crucial they are to the functioning of society. People (mostly men) who do back-breaking labor, like harvest food from the fields, are critical to the food supply, yet it is often paid less than minimum wage. My dad grew up on a farm and was a soldier for more than 2 1/2 decades. I always find it pretty galling when folks who make good money are basically snobby assholes about the value of blue collar work.
We really need to do something about making sure that critical jobs get paid a living wage -- not out of compassion or charity but out of enlightened self-interest. That's the only way the spoiled educated people who made "good" career choices will get to keep sitting on their asses at a computer and still eat. Sigh.
There are some things very wrong with this world. Not in a "gosh, we are all assholes" sort of way but in a "gosh, we are all idiots -- what happens if we can't fill these blue collar jobs and the grocery store shelves sit empty?" sort of way.
It makes some excellent points about how pathetically underpaid some jobs are and how crucial they are to the functioning of society. People (mostly men) who do back-breaking labor, like harvest food from the fields, are critical to the food supply, yet it is often paid less than minimum wage. My dad grew up on a farm and was a soldier for more than 2 1/2 decades. I always find it pretty galling when folks who make good money are basically snobby assholes about the value of blue collar work.
We really need to do something about making sure that critical jobs get paid a living wage -- not out of compassion or charity but out of enlightened self-interest. That's the only way the spoiled educated people who made "good" career choices will get to keep sitting on their asses at a computer and still eat. Sigh.
There are some things very wrong with this world. Not in a "gosh, we are all assholes" sort of way but in a "gosh, we are all idiots -- what happens if we can't fill these blue collar jobs and the grocery store shelves sit empty?" sort of way.