Yes, and most Americans at some time in their lives (except the very rich) work at menial or unskilled labor jobs. It makes you appreciate your job later in life when you use your mind rather than muscle.
Take gardening for example. That's something most people used to do for themselves - for the pleasure of it (my wife and I still do). I know I was expected to mow the lawn (push mower too), rake leaves, burn 'em, pull weeds, shovel snow, whatever. My dad didn't hire it out to a gang of illegal aliens. But now it seems - in my old, upscale neighborhood at least - just about nobody mows his own lawn, etc. Fat, lazy kids are too busy on their iPods to get out there and do it, apparently. So they pay Mexicans to do it for them.
This is what's wrong.
Perfect example is Paris Hilton.
It also makes you appreciate the value of money, respect the process by which you got it, teaches you how to handle it wisely, and makes you bitterly resent politicains who want to steal if from you "for the common good."
I had some jobs when I was a kid that would make the guy from Dirty Jobs cough up a lung. You can bet mucking about in that kind of work was a powerful incentive for me to get a good and marketable education.
"Yes, and most Americans at some time in their lives (except the very rich) work at menial or unskilled labor jobs. It makes you appreciate your job later in life when you use your mind rather than muscle."
And some can even use both at the same time. ;)