Longing for Jobs We Used to Hate
23rd April 2012
Michael Barone calls out the regressives of the Left.
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him to a comfortable retirement.
As it happens, I grew up in Detroit and for a time lived next door to factory workers, so I know something that has eluded the liberal nostalgiacs — which is that people hated those jobs. Assembly-line work was boring and repetitive. Management had imbibed Frederick W. Taylor’s theories that workers were stupid and couldn’t be trusted with any initiative.
No worry about anybody in Detroit actually working any more, of course.
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:34
For the Left, those boring and repetitive jobs are perfect for the hoi polloi. Such jobs are nearly always unionized, and unions nearly always vote for and give money to Democrats. Therefore, for the Left, it’s absolutely perfect.