Mike Rowe is a blatant shill for anti-labor practices and it's clear even in this clip.
This is not commonly known. If they had emphasized trade school and training, I feel like it would have had much less pushback from the right.
e.g. CANCELS $1.6 TRILLION IN STUDENT DEBT FOR 45 MILLION AMERICANS
The fact sheet says it would pay for all of this (in total $2.2 trillion) by taxing Wall Street speculation. So, somehow create a tax that represents almost 10% of total US GDP to cancel student debt and allow all future college to be almost free.
I can't imagine any world where that would actually happen. Bernie is living in the clouds.
This isn't giving anyone a fighting chance because it's not an actual, feasible solution.
Ref: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/college-fo...
Very much an advocate for the working man, there.
“There is a ladder of success that people climb,” he continued. “Some of those jobs that are out there for seven, eight, nine dollars an hour, in my view, they're simply not intended to be careers. They're not intended to be full-time jobs. They're rungs on a ladder."
"[Those jobs] are ways for people to get experience in the workforce doing a thing that might not necessarily pay you as much as you'd like, but nevertheless serves a real purpose,"
And picking up where it left off: "So to me, the brightest line needs to be drawn between skilled and unskilled work. We need to encourage more people to learn a skill that's actually in demand."
> Some of those jobs that are out there for seven, eight, nine dollars an hour, in my view, they're simply not intended to be careers. They're not intended to be full-time jobs.
This is a huge conservative talking point - the federal minimum wage was intended to be a liveable wage, not "for teenagers/high schoolers/part timers" - this whole spin of "these jobs are not meant to be liveable" is a wholly after-the-fact revisionism.
jobs that are not meant to be livable should never be fulltime.
people stuck in a fulltime non-livable job don't have the time or resources to upgrade.
I can't think of many other public figures that have spent as much time as him, advocating for blue collar work.
The trick is not advocating for the work but the worker. Employment, without fail, sucks ass.
Welding is a "shitty job?" I'd disagree entirely, and I think that would be Mike Rowe's position as well, and I think he directly cautions against the mentality you're attempting to take to these careers. You're also seemingly leaving no space for owner operated businesses.
> I can't think of any other reason to do this—I don't know many men who long for dirtier jobs so they're seen as more manly.
Doesn't that just undercut your own thesis, then? Or are you operating on the presumption that the advice being given by Mike Rowe is meant to be universal and you should upend your life in order to chase it? I don't see that at all.
I'm still baffled as to how you'd see any of this as "anti-labor."