He is right, and Charles Murry concurs. The small jobs are not available much any more and frankly, we are poorer for it. The gas pumpers, the street sweepers, the baggers and carry to the car guys. the guy who lived in the basement and kept my granmother’s coal furnace going. The women who took in washing, the men who carried items.
Not everyone can do big jobs because of their IQ or mental status. Now we have no little jobs.
The gas pumpers scratched the hell out of my car, the street sweepers used to shove dirt into people’s houses, baggers never did it right and always managed to drop some of my stuff, furnace stokers used for respiratory diseases, women *still* take in washing.
On a long car trip this summer, we were stunned to discover that NJ requires the use of gas pumpers. The pumper who enlightened us said that the only other state with such a law is Oregon.
I do miss gas pumpers.
“Not everyone can do big jobs because of their IQ or mental status. Now we have no little jobs.”
A lot of welfare are reparations payments go to the irresponsible and the lazy who intend to dodge all labor. However many do want to work. But where are the lousy jobs and the good jobs for them. My father had a sheet metal factory which employed 40 lower middle class men. Those kind of men’s jobs are much rarer in America today. This kind of work is mostly done outside of America or it is computerized and automated these days.
So of course all these people will want to live off Gov’t transfer payments rather than starve. They will live off “welfare” of various kinds and supplement that with off the books work and petty crime like drug dealing
So what about all the engineers who invented the machines to automate routine tasks? Should they not have done that? Are we lamenting the demise of the type writer too? Lots of secretaries out of work now don’t cha know. Perhaps computers and word processing were bad ideas. And don’t get me started on the farriers. That infernal automobile put them all out of work!!!!