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To: SamAdams76

Have you ever been a roofer? Or a landscaper? I have, both.

Landscaper is very much like being a pre-industrial farmer, admittedly with machines to help. It’s hot and dirty and unpleasant much of the time.

Being a roofer is worse. It’s really, really hot and unpleasant and brutally wearing physically.

Neither pays very well at all.

I thought your whole point was that technology would create better jobs.

Not to mention that the limited number of roofing and landscaping jobs are competed more and more for by people displaced from factories and soon from jobs driving vehicles.

The oversupply of course drives wages down.

To top it off, we are importing millions of people a year to compete for these same jobs.


82 posted on 05/04/2015 7:07:25 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Yes, I’ve done roofing but only landscape my own yard - which is hard work enough. That’s why I got myself educated on new technologies. So I can work indoors and use my brain.


84 posted on 05/04/2015 7:12:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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