Today, 09:02 AM
I think one of the main problems in American society is that the individual workers in the "working class" - even the white collar ones at this point - kinda have a point about getting screwed by the business they work for.
I can't speak for the blue collar except to say they have been pitted directly against their employers for over a century now and I don't expect it's a whole lot different these days.
For the white collar, though, employees are probably more cogs in their machine than blue collar workers have been in a long, long time. I've been involved in hiring enough over the last 15 years to know how it goes: you look for someone with the skillset and you're basically not allowed to look at anything else. On-the-job training of someone you know will learn it and be a good fit aren't a thing anymore, at least not in IT. And yes, it used to be, 20 years ago. You make yourself look like a cog and you get picked up and put in the machine - which is exactly as fulfilling as it sounds.
So it's no wonder this tired old saw keeps working - 'we're gonna protect workers'. The problem is that very few in American society understand or would even bother to look into how companies got to this point. For people who already hate the state it's kinda easy to see ways the state has made it this way. But for people who love the state, it's hopeless, and we're gonna get more state to fix problems the state causes.
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Originally Posted by Anti Federalist
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