12-18-2022, 03:24 PM
There are jobs -- but obviously not where the poor people are. In the old days the manufacturers located their factories where the poor people were, which explains why the mass employers were in certain cities. Think of the old Garment District in New York, full of southern and east-European immigrants.
I was headed away from Detroit at commute time, and I noticed that traffic was as heavy in the direction opposite the traditional commuting route to Detroit. The people driving with me were mostly black. I had no cause to believe that black workers were an inordinate share of those who work the graveyard shift, so I figure that they were headed to the service and retail jobs in the wealthier suburbs.
I was headed away from Detroit at commute time, and I noticed that traffic was as heavy in the direction opposite the traditional commuting route to Detroit. The people driving with me were mostly black. I had no cause to believe that black workers were an inordinate share of those who work the graveyard shift, so I figure that they were headed to the service and retail jobs in the wealthier suburbs.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.