I work a one-deep job that isn’t the best but provides some security; I couldn’t imagine working a job where many others do exactly the same thing as me. I’d never sleep at night, and never assume I’d have a job the following week.
No wonder Americans don’t have families or buy homes...
I remember one time as a young engineer traveling up to Beth Page on Long Island to visit Sperry about some work they were doing for the government on which my colleague and I were hired to monitor.
We spent an entire day there talking to the engineers and technicians there, then sometime after lunch, they handed us over to a guy who was avidly enthusiastic about the minutest of details in a radome fiberglass lay-up process, and he proceeded to tell us all about it in excruciating detail.
He finished at about 4:05PM and we walked out of the conference room and looked on a hanger-like open space of cubicles normally filled with UNION engineers that was COMPLETELY empty. Had been since 4:00PM.
They were hundreds deep, and they were unionized, and they had government largess behind them.
Your observations are spot-on. It’s why I’ve become convinced that our electorate is about to take a hard-left populist turn.