Bears repeating. But I only worked in steel processing/manufacturing. One company hired temps (primarily) from the bowels of Detroit. The other had Teamsters from the bowels of Chicago.
And I worked 50-60 hours a week in order to make less money than the Teamsters made in order to work 35, and stay home drunk and watch Bulls games (they were mostly Mexicans).
I contend that most great laborers…and there are many….eventually leave the labor pool and become management - or start their own companies of some type. When you look at it in the proper perspective, saying that Americans make bad low tier laborers is a compliment.
Americans are great at many things, but grunt labor is not one of them. People who own businesses that require that kind of labor have to understand this if they want to stay in business. I don’t see this as an anti American comment at all…..merely reality.