Liberals shitting on the American working class and blaming the Chinese
Stupid memes of Americans working in assembly and production plants
I don’t know who created these memes but they’re not being passed around to raise cultural awareness. They’re being used by liberals to scoff at people doing work.
These are the memes shared by liberal losers like KyleKulinski (Twitter post). I’m starting to think we let this slide without laughing because they’re so professionally crafted with AI; but, instead of resharing immediately, watch the video.
It’s not funny. If it was, or you found it funny — whatever. I’m not here to tone check your shitty humor.
And, it’s not progressive (ie., it punches down)
Don’t share it!
Stupid reactionary meme
Here is the video,
The above video shows obese people grinding away producing commodities people need. What’s the joke here? Can someone help me out?
That the work isn’t dignified? It is. Unlike accountants, attorneys and business majors, this is honorable work that needs to get done.
That Americans wouldn’t do it? They would. Americans service electronics right now. And, we have textiles even in the United States. It’s happening as you speak.
This kind of shit pushes away the working class and leaves them in the MAGA camp.
My first W-2 Job
I’m a millennial. My first W-2 job was tracing analog petrochemical well logs for a company called A2D Technologies with a digitizing mouse in a warehouse. They came in scrolls of measurements from an instrument as it was pulled up a 5,000 foot borehole. I made $8-$12/hr doing that in 2003. That’s more than some kids get paid now in fast food. It was in an airconditioned room with 20 others. I worked either after-hours or graveyard. The company had both shifts. After-hours had a 10% bonus. Graveyard had 20% bonus. (Numbers are all approximate). Imagine 500 feet of paper rolled up like this, and every curve had to be digitized separately.
The critique with merit
Yes, our working conditions are better on the whole. This doesn’t show at all in these memes. The Chinese work 9-9-6 (9am to 9pm, for six days a week). Most Americans do not work 12 hour shifts, but it’s not beyond us. In some industries, like nursing it’s common. However, this doesn’t show shift duration. And it’s silly because reshoring this work doesn’t mean we have to work 12 hour shifts. It just means for an American company it has to be
cheaper to have three Americans working eight hour shifts
than two Chinese people working 12 hour shifts with a 125% tariff on the output.
Is it? No idea. And the economic critique: that the work is likely to go to other countries in southeast Asia is also totally removed from the meme. But why are these serious concerns being vented by shitting on the blue collared workers that are ready, able, and willing to do the work?