My first comment on this thread was in post 26: "Gosh, As if the entrepreneurs, independent tinkerers, resource prospectors, and researchers had nothing to do with it!"
Those VC guys who take big risks were on MY list of people who matter in addition to the bewailed proletariat. They are essential to a free market. So, that's ME winning this argument, not the proto Marxist populism to which I was responding.
And those companies would have been nothing without workers to bring them.
I never said workers weren't important, but that they are no more essential, which was the point of the post to which I was responding in the first place. You did read the whole thread, didn't you?
I don’t understand your apparent distain for the common person.
I said I have worked side by side with them, in a way that few in my profession and with my education would do. See post 32. I can and have performed the bulk of their skills, having worked in restoring antique boats during college wherein I had to be expert in joinerwork, plumbing, as a mechanic, welding, and machining... even sewing. I've done work far more unpleasant and unsafe than most any worker would ever tolerate, and still do.
Next bogus contention?
I’d be willing to agree that unions have overstepped their usefulness. But your attitude towards the working public goes beyond that.
Try reading the whole thread. You are dead wrong. Those people with whom I worked (particularly the machinists and electricians) have been lifelong friends. What I won't tolerate is disparagement of the professional class in order to elevate craft skills.
I do enjoy a good debate! However I often engage without knowing enough about my opponent. Had I done so this time, I wouldn’t have wasted the effort. It’s a good thing you have some basic skills to go along with all that professional know how. It looks like you might need them soon.