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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Amy Alkon

      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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      Amy AlkonVerified account @amyalkon
      There's a beautiful passage in Barry Schwartz's "Practical Wisdom" about how a janitor saw his mission in alignment w/the hospital's - alleviating patients' suffering - & remopped the floor of a brain-dead patient when the father accused him of neglect, tho he'd already done it. https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/1227854346911543298 …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      2/ Related, read an essay recently (not sure where - perhaps @patio11 ?) talking about how Japanese culture has more respect for service roles, and reflects this in mode of address. The essay said that a sushi chef is addressed as "Mr Sushi", a garbageman as "Mr Garbageman" etc

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

      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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          7/pic.twitter.com/Cvlbk8Pqyr

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted "Astonishing Hero" in High Orc

          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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          "Astonishing Hero" in High Orc @Astonishng_Hero
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Progs don't discuss interpersonal, social aspects of class they way they do race / sex ("when talking to someone from group x, do y") and righties too quick to say "just don't be poor." Leaves me no one to talk to while doing [necessary for occasionally humiliating job.]
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          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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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          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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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted "Astonishing Hero" in High Orc

          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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          "Astonishing Hero" in High Orc @Astonishng_Hero
          Replying to @MorlockP @patio11
          I spend days in working class / underclass menial environment and nights in upper middle class arts / tech environment and the difference is tricky to navigate. ("What jokes are appropriate here? What can I be honest about?")
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Feb 2020

          12/ Anyway. Someone learned something that day, and it wasn't me.

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