The eduKKKrats teach children that such work is menial and worthless. Everybody must be in law or marketing. I remember when I was a kid and did poorly on a test or didn’t get my homework done the teachers would say, “You have to do better, unless you want to work in a factory like your parents”. So now we have a generation who spent years and years and thousands and thousands of dollars on college, but can’t do any work that adds value to anything.
ELAINE: Speaking of Jerry, his father is driving me so crazy down at Peterman’s.
GEORGE: You know what I do at the Yankees, when one of these old guys is breathing down my neck?
ELAINE: What?
GEORGE: You schedule a late meeting.
ELAINE: Huh? What does that do?
GEORGE: These old guys, they’re up at 4 a.m., by two thirty they’re wiped.
Indeed! Nothing is more noble than taking raw materials and turning them into finished goods. I don't know why our schools can't teach that.
Funny thing happened to me one day -- I found out that a Dean of Engineering of a local University and his wife -- both educated with higher degrees -- were uncomfortable with the word "profit"! They treated it like a dirty word? I wonder how they thought they got their bread and butter (and all their fancy hobbies -- motorcycles, horses, etc) if it didn't come from the PROFIT earned by the taxpayers???