Jay H.People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.
40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.
Cassandrich@jhankins This is absolutely true, but I do think people miss feeling like their labor is producing something useful to people like themselves, rather than being a complete and utter bullshit job making their boss even richer and making people like themselves deal with more and more bullshit in their everyday lives.
Space Hobo@spacehobo @jhankins Factory yes, but factory is also pretty much entirely junk work (see downthread). I had in mind roles that are actually involved in building the infrastructure of human civilization, not mass produced garbage to convince people to buy, and that actually involve human skills, not using a human as a more expendable substitute for an expensive machine.