So tell me, do you think the only work that is REALLY work is physical labor? Are you serious?
And you cannot see that, say, software development, has its own stresses. They may not be physical but they are stresses nevertheless. L0ong hours. Impossible schedules. Problems that you have to twist your brain inside out to solve.
Do you think the only labor of value is physical? James Clerk Maxwell contributed nothing? Isaac Newton? James Watt? Tesla? Pasteur? Salk and Sabin? Watson and Crick? Einstein?
If this is your definition of 'working hard', then you are right. Except for one thing: That definition is ludicrous.
I think all college students should be forced to take a job that shows them people who work HARD - mind numbing jobs, back breaking labor, little or no benefits, crummy pay, no future.
Great idea! Any other parts of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution you'd like to import?
Oh, BTW, I spent two summers in college working with Mexicans as a field hand. You know, harvesting. Actually, my job was throwing 50-pound boxes lettuce 6-12 feet into the air to the back of a truck. Twelve hours a day. I think I have some familiarity with physical labor. And I consider what I do now (SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT) to also be work.
I am a liberal, and I have been very lucky. Maybe the difference between us liberals and you, James, is that we recognize when we have been lucky, and recognize that lady luck doesn't shine on everyone equally.
Nobody said it did. It certainly shown better on those staunch conservative scions, the Kennedys, than it did on me. I think they should give me $100 million to even things up.
The fact is that, in spite of that, this is still the most open and fair system in the world. Why do you those poor third-worlders try so hard to get here? |
