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Another way of putting it: if unskilled workers embedded in society that valued them, stagnant wages wldn’t = anger twitter.com/kausmickey/sta…
Mickey Kaus
Kausfiles
Another way of putting it: if unskilled workers embedded in society that valued them, stagnant wages wldn’t = anger twitter.com/kausmickey/sta…
@kausmickey e.g. tight watch over licensed “unskilled” workers vs. blind eye toward companies w/illegal owners shows lack of value/respect
@kausmickey @Chris_arnade One factor he misses: unchecked immigration has brought in too many people who cling to foreign ways.
@kausmickey Nailed what I’ve been saying to friends for months. They aren’t low information voters but real information voters.
@kausmickey Status, $ are fungible–one leads to the other. Read Arnade on “paint crew” vs. “construction crew”: https://t.co/osKK5nV9bj
@kausmickey @Chris_arnade – So basically white people feel entitled and rebel when treated like crap by Reaganomics.
@kausmickey I don’t agree with him that anti-immigrant sentiment is simply scapegoating for material decline
@kausmickey economic determinists have no understanding of a sense cultural loss.
@Hesiod2k11 @kausmickey @Chris_arnade the Clinton bargain was ok you got screwed by globalism but here are services and also you can be gay