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Gee vs. Reality

Posted by: Stoller on December 17, 1999 at 16:06:03:

In Reply to: Adam Smith v Adam Smith posted by Gee on December 17, 1999 at 15:07:33:

: Incidently when Smith talks of men doing simple work and becoming stupid - he doesnt speak about the mechanics, office PC using clerks, welders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painter & decoraters and all those other non-college educated jobs people do all around us in the West, but more the repetetive work of digging, log chopping, yarn weaving as done by the majority of workers in his day.
Needless to say, mechanics, office PC using clerks, welders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painter & decoraters 'and all those other non-college educated jobs people do all around us in the West' were not prevalent in 1776.
NEITHER WERE CASHIERS, JANITORS, SALESPEOPLE OR WAITERS---todays's highest growth 'professions' (New York Times, 31 August 1997, sec. 4, p. 9).
The 'repetitive work of digging, log chopping, yarn weaving' is but the cashiering, janitoring, sales hustling, and table-waiting of TODAY---jobs that stultify the minds of MILLIONS of people everyday in our 'advanced information economy.'
Gee would like us to think that TODAY'S proletariat is comprised mainly of semi-skilled workers (such as mechanics, office PC using clerks, welders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painter & decoraters)---but that's NOT the reality.
The reality is that most people do TOTALLY unskilled work.
Then as now.

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