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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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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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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Righties don’t say “just don’t be poor”, we say “be productive”. Leftists construed latter as the former to demonize the view. Conservatives respect low pay jobs if workers respect their own work. I don’t care how much you earn; I care whether you’re productive. Happy to talk!
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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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Then again underclass norms are baffling to me b/c there's about zero conflict resolution skills. ("Is this what I look like to UMC people?")
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