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To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories (www.politico.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know a lot of people that work in union manufacturing jobs that have a real sense of pride and feeling of accomplishment about it. Gotta say, having time off, extra money, and voice in how the company treats you probably goes a long way, because some of those same people hated their non-unions jobs before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. But for some reason, capitalism hates if workers are happy, so you have to press them harder and harder.

These jobs you're describing are becoming rarer, and not only in manufacturing. I'm a software developer office drone and I'm financially very well off and have pretty good working conditions, but my work is mostly meaningless, if I'm honest. Not that the product I'm building is useless, far from it, but there's so much that removes me from actually feeling valuable, that I might as well just dig a hole and fill it up again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Alienation real for sure, I have to fight that my job all the time. One for me is all of pencil pushing signature block owners I have to talk to. Like I hate to say it, but theres gotta be a better use of both our time then them being road blocks on peoples paths to production.