Americans. 🙄
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3lmpjuzutkc22
@gwynnion Reminds me of a survey here in Germany before the recent election, which was roughly like this:
Germany's economic situation and outlook is bad:
80% agree
20% disagree
My own economic situation and outlook is bad:
20% agree
80% disagree
Something similar can be seen with Europeans' attitude toward climate change. Rough figures:
60-85% worry about climate change and its effects, and want more action taken to address this.
10-44%: support changes that will personally affect their lifestyles, such as major agricultural reform, giving up meat, or switching to public transport instead of driving.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/europeans-want-climate-action-but-not-lifestyle-change-poll
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-willing-to-change-lifestyle-climate-survey
@katlin @rstub @GhostOnTheHalfShell @gwynnion It rhymes, though as counterpoint. There’s a significantly lesser degree of selfishness on show to me when someone expresses they’re fine but others are suffering.
For another tangent, in the US last I saw, 2/3 support reproductive rights, trans rights, and climate action, but assume only 1/3 do and that they’re in the minority.
All about the Overton window.
@gwynnion Americans agree that they wish they had servants working for them.
That was always the American dream. Not to live in a land without kings or tyrants, but to live in a land where you have a chance to become a king or tyrant.
Honestly give the damage to the human body caused by factory or mining work, what are our options for eliminating those jobs altogether?
I think people's unconscious is able to connect the idea of factory work with the historical benefits of union jobs. It's become a kind of short-hand that people have now forgotten why they even think manufacturing work is a good thing.
It's not the specific job (few people actually like working in a factory in and of itself), it's the union protections and the fact that those unions made a middle-class life possible in our nation's past.
And I guess all the products they manufacture should be cheap?
Guess they have something completely wrong on neoliberal capitalism…
Sigh…
@gwynnion I mean, there's some truth to it. It's always nice to have jobs for workers in your own country. The problem is that a lot of these entry-level manufacturing positions in the US are done by immigrants. Many of whom are getting screwed over by 47. Heck, even tourists are getting screwed.
I'm honestly don't know what to do, as I can't even get work. It's been two years, and I can't get any entry-level positions in my field. It's like they don't exist.
(I voted for Harris 2024 btw.)
@passwordsarehard4 Sadly, people fail to realize this again and again, electing demagogues that promise this holly grail of homegrown manufacturing providing happiness and prosperity to everyone.
@gwynnion 25% is 10x more than 2% (tho the actual number is higher than that). So that checks out, that is more.
Nobody thinks everyone should work in a factory.
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