Comment 42035

By highwater (registered) | Posted June 16, 2010 at 11:07:04

I'm all for our economy shifting towards more brain work and less grunt work - the trend has served us pretty well over the past few hundred years - but I get nervous whenever I hear talk which makes white-collar brain work sound like the "normal" thing do to, as if a manual labourer is merely a failed office worker. Granted, that might be true for many individual manual labourers, but not for all and I don't think that it should be true for our society as a whole.

Someone needs to build the roads, to raise the roofs, the collect the trash, to cut the trees, to dig the holes, and to clean the toilets. And the people who do these jobs need to be part of our society, not sad leavings or desperate brought-ins.

I'm not saying that we have ever put as much value on being a dustman as a doctor nor that we should, but rather that we can't aim our education and economic systems at producing a doctors' world in which the dustmen are merely embarrassing failures.

This is especially true given what's in store for us.

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