1/ I'm certainly not going to go 19yo NRx kid and argue that everything about 1300 AD was better than today, but there was one thing in the old Judeo-Christian culture which the progs have destroyed which was better and relevant here: the concept of the inherent dignity of work.https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1227855204269187074 …
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3/ So while in 1780 or 1880 or 1950, everyone would PREFER to have the salary and the status of a doctor or an architect or whatever, life elsewhere in the status hierarchy wasn't terrible. You could be a carpenter or a cooper or a laborer and still feel like you had value.
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4/ But Prog emphasis on education (largely coming from the post-War / Cold War era) very quickly metastasized into this thing where someone with a PhD in victim studies would assert that being a janitor was "beneath" them, and politicians would talk w contempt of burger flippers
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5/ The inherent hilarity is that the prog sectors of the economy are the useless ones: burger flipping (i.e. feeding hungry people) is bad, but writing complain essays about sexism in some superhero comic book is vital and important and good.
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6/ Being a skilled tradesman with yrs of experience, being tough enough to work in 100° summer heat and 10° winter cold, welding pipelines to keep cars going & houses heated is eye-rollingly de classe, but working three part time jobs as a university adjunct teaching BS is good
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8/ There will always be crap tasks. The trick, I assert, is to structure society so that we don't say "the person who does a crap task is a crap person".https://twitter.com/jfburrell/status/1227990570326544388 …
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9/ As a tangent: people lower down in the power hierarchy are often much more prickly about doing crap tasks, and people higher up have "social status buffer" where they can do them with less status panic / fear. When I ran a company I scrubbed the toilets and took out trash.
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10/ ...because (a) I wasn't going to ask the shipping clerks to clean toilets, (b) the shipping clerks got very squirrely and resistant to taking out trash, so I just did it myself. Unloading tractor trailers didn't bother them, tho. (But even then, I lead from the front).
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11/ Yep. The code switching is real. I had one guy who was shocked beyond words when I fired him for punctuating an angry outburst by throwing a stapler across the room. I guess that's ... acceptable... when working in a restaurant kitchen?https://twitter.com/jfburrell/status/1227991452841598979 …
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12/ Anyway. Someone learned something that day, and it wasn't me.
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