***The Precariat class.
Posted on 02/11/2022 12:47:27 PM PST by Bratch
Anyone familiar with my scribbling knows that I separate modern society into two categories: World Turners and The Useless.
Me? I’m no World Turner. I’m one of The Useless. What I mean is this: If everyone who does what I do for a living stopped doing it today, the world would keep right on turning. Society would roll along just fine without me and mine — maybe better. Sure, a few people might miss my musings, but only for a little while. And the same is true for anyone who makes a living spewing their half-assed opinions (especially Jonah Goldberg).
In fact, you could wipe society’s table clear of every writer, artist, actor, musician, professor, dancer, reporter, tastemaker, producer, influencer, teacher, lobbyist, politician, everyone on TV, everyone who doesn’t get their hands dirty, and our world would keep turning just fine. Would we miss things like the newest Marvel movie? Sure. Those things are the spice of a life as bountiful as ours. But that doesn’t change the fact that our world would keep right on turning.
Now try to live without the World Turners, those sneered at by America’s left-wing elite, by the CNNs and "Morning Joes" and NPR — the working class. Try to imagine your life without mechanics, farmers, coal miners, oil drillers, plumbers, roofers, electricians, pest control, the people who stock the shelves, who make our steel, police our streets, put out our fires, pave our roads, dig our ditches, haul our garbage, and plow the snow. Within a month, our world stops turning. Within six months, welcome to dystopia. Within a year, we’re eating one another.
But if you really want to know who keeps our world turning, it’s the truck drivers.
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Statists have to control. It’s what they do, because they know what is best for the rest
Imagine no FreeRepublic forum to post!!! Unimaginable!
Then don’t read them
I read things posted to FR.
“Notice his these guys make everything about themselves.”
He put himself and others like him in the Useless category. He gets it.
IF YOU HAVE IT—A TRUCK BROUGHT IT
Count yourself counted by the rest of us.
A fine essay Nolte
Reading articles is for sissies
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Good point. The working class keeps everything running.
Interesting. Never heard that term before.
They're clearly a vital part of the machine that "keeps things running," but there are some brains higher up--those that established the supply chain, those that dispatched the drivers and told them where to go, those that created the sorting and delivery algorithms, the 2-D barcodes that track packages and shipments, and so on. All of those people are just as vital, and you can continue for several layers beyond the drivers.
My point is, let's not reduce this down to only the truck drivers. Clearly, their work stoppage makes the supply chain more evident, but they are part of a large network.
Agreed 100%.
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