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This video gets close to the problem.

We've rather a lot of people in comfortable, safe, low stress and ostensibly respectable employment that in truth are contributing little value to society.

Where all this started to go wrong both for the West and for politics is when the purpose of taking kids to visit factories stopped being about science education and instead became a warning that this is where you'll end up if you don't pay attention at school.

So what I'm getting at is there's a social class problem with all this. We've got quite a few who oppose all this not for any rational reason but simply because they actively despise the thought of working in a factory. They'd much rather stick to their safe, easy and comfortable service job of the sort referred to.

To be clear I don't blame anyone personally for taking the work that's available to them and there are of course many white collar jobs that do indeed serve a purpose in society. My point here is about politics, society and the economy and that overall we're wasting a massive portion of the workforce's collective output on, well, BS jobs:

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<blockquote data-quote="Smurf1976" data-source="post: 1326312" data-attributes="member: 676">This video gets close to the problem.We&#039;ve rather a lot of people in comfortable, safe, low stress and ostensibly respectable employment that in truth are contributing little value to society.Where all this started to go wrong both for the West and for politics is when the purpose of taking kids to visit factories stopped being about science education and instead became a warning that this is where you&#039;ll end up if you don&#039;t pay attention at school.So what I&#039;m getting at is there&#039;s a social class problem with all this. We&#039;ve got quite a few who oppose all this not for any rational reason but simply because they actively despise the thought of working in a factory. They&#039;d much rather stick to their safe, easy and comfortable service job of the sort referred to.To be clear I don&#039;t blame anyone personally for taking the work that&#039;s available to them and there are of course many white collar jobs that do indeed serve a purpose in society. My point here is about politics, society and the economy and that overall we&#039;re wasting a massive portion of the workforce&#039;s collective output on, well, BS jobs:[MEDIA=youtube]uK3OBAxCi6k[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Smurf1976, post: 1326312, member: 676"] This video gets close to the problem. We've rather a lot of people in comfortable, safe, low stress and ostensibly respectable employment that in truth are contributing little value to society. Where all this started to go wrong both for the West and for politics is when the purpose of taking kids to visit factories stopped being about science education and instead became a warning that this is where you'll end up if you don't pay attention at school. So what I'm getting at is there's a social class problem with all this. We've got quite a few who oppose all this not for any rational reason but simply because they actively despise the thought of working in a factory. They'd much rather stick to their safe, easy and comfortable service job of the sort referred to. To be clear I don't blame anyone personally for taking the work that's available to them and there are of course many white collar jobs that do indeed serve a purpose in society. My point here is about politics, society and the economy and that overall we're wasting a massive portion of the workforce's collective output on, well, BS jobs: [MEDIA=youtube]uK3OBAxCi6k[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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