Hey, My Job Is Easy
This new Taibbi classic reminds me of another crucial underpinning of the Robert Samuelson mindset: since it’s easy to imagine churning out fourth-rate center-right boilerplate at a six-figure salary for as long as you’re able to draw breath (no minimum level of brain function required), why shouldn’t the huge number of people physically and/or mentally destructive jobs wait until 7o too?
Bobo is to self awareness what kryptonite is to Superman. Samuelson, on the other hand, is simply a steaming pile of putrid hippo shit.
Even people that do “work” crazy hours at kind of abusive jobs (junior associate lawyers, junior consultants at McKinsey, etc.) are more than compensated for their effort, and in fact a claim could be made that those industries keep the work hours up to inflate the salaries. What is to stop them from hiring 50% more staff in turn for having people work normal hours?
Again, these folks think huge bonuses are legit when the company is in the tank.
BoSam should be dipped in fermented chile paste and eaten with lettuce.
mmm, fermented chili paste…
I worked on construction through out my college years, one year in highway construction 3 working for American Bridge. The guys I worked with ranged in age from 20 to 50 or so, everyone of the these construction lifers had major injuries on the job, they had missing fingers, permanent limps, bad backs, scars on their arms, faces,scars everywhere. I have a scar on the inside of my right forearm, 8 inches long and a 1/4 of an inch wide from an on the job accident while unloading steel in a railyard. For pussies like Brooks to think blue collar workers, like the ones I worked with, have it easy or don’t work hard is insane. Raise retirement to 70 for this kind of work is crazy, most of them don’t make it past 50!
Every time I’m tempted to complain about work (as a professor), I’m reminded of this exchange from “All in the Family”:
Gloria to Mike: “Tough day at school today?”
Archie: “Yeah, what ya do, bend ya library card?”
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In addition, pundits like that can ‘work’ even after death; I strongly suspect all pundits over the media pundit age (i.e., over 80) are actually dead, and their staffs are assembling columns from previous columns, with enough names of current events and people to make them look like current work.
It wouldn’t be hard, and there’s a shortage of jobs where recycled, predictable boiler-place BS commands a high price.
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