Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Sarah Hoyt asks the right question: what’s the margin of civilization?
Look, pretty much any organization can carry one freeloader. Usually, it’s the boss’s nephew. Certain union shops and government offices seem to have more of them because productivity isn’t tied to profit.
But at some point, if all you hire are Pajama Boys and Diversity Coordinators, who’s doing the welding? Who’s going to climb the power pole during the thunderstorm to reconnect the cables? Who’s going down in the manhole – ooops, sorry, person hole – to shovel the clogged sewage? Who’s the roughneck throwing the chain around the drill pipe when you’re coming out of the hole in the Badlands of North Dakota? Who’s the cop wading into the bar fight? Who’s the firefighter climbing down the ladder with my fat a** slung over the shoulder?
Diversity is a fact, not a goal. At least, not for long. After the collapse of civilization, it will be a curse word.
Joe Doakes
As Glenn Reynolds says, things that can’t be sustained, won’t be. Probably holds true for people, too.
So that’s why we have more job openings available compared to job seekers, too many completely nonsensical jobs have been created to employ gender-studies losers.
The answer is: immigrants.
It used to be loyal DFL’rs who did that sort of work. Now it is loyal GOP’rs, so the party of the people need to replace them with people who are more politically reliable.
I can’t answer those questions about welding and septic system cleaning in St Paul, but out here in MN-6, we have plenty of people to do that work.
I doubt these same people would be willing to move the “urban core” for almost any money (I know I wouldn’t) because the costs, direct and indirect, are simply too great to be offset by a few dollars more in gross pay (which would be confiscated anyway as bribes to the so-called less fortunate).