To be more charitable, it is meaningful that our labor laws and culture were driven by the unionization of large industrial operations and a division within the labor movement between industrial and craft unionism. But we've had decades to reimagine the working class now.
The big industrial shops mostly aren't coming back. The future of the labor union is the restaurant and the barber shop and the hospital, not the steel mill.
Anyway, I tweeted about this yesterday. I think it's a real issue in the Discourse.
Working-class people deserve nice things too. The fact that public provision of baseline shit like parks, transit, and safe streets is so poor that middle-class people scramble to live in places with those amenities is a horrific indictment of government.
Among other things, for a belief seemingly adopted by people aligning themselves with the left, it's a shockingly conservative view of the world. There's enough for all of us if we demand it.
A vulgar materialist analysis would pretty strongly put the American Jewish community in alignment with liberal capitalism. We've done quite well under it! So the Jewish left needs something to bring our community along.
The increasing precarity of the middle class is definitely one thing, but also a stable, pluralist, democratic society is the only kind which has ever protected Jewish safety in the long term. Ensuring its maintenance is vital for us.
It's wild to watch people who just spent like a year complaining that they can't go to work because they need to watch their kids and schools aren't open decide that taking care of kids is now not vital economic infrastructure.
I swear to fucking Christ, what is it about "things that ensure there are new workers and that existing workers can go to work are infrastructure" makes people stupid
It's the fucking Financial District! That's like, one of the two ur-places for tall buildings in the United States!
I don't understand why anyone would want to live there--every job but one that I've had in NYC has been in this general area--but apparently people really do, because property values are insanely high.
Someone please hit him for this bullshit when they're debating: "Andrew wants to give your tax dollars to rich people who live in Westchester instead of funding our schools."
This is a good idea in theory, which in substance consists of Yang yelling at private banks to accept NYCID as a form of ID.