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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]19:43 is an evil elitist.[/quote]

Well feel free to sign up for minimum wage in the textile factory…bring your kid.[/quote]

You and your kid aren’t smart enough to be able to work in a factory. Even automated textiles
 manufacturing equipment involves complex machine set up procedures involving hand tools, precise measurements and a working knowledge of mechanical processes and systems. You and your kid probably couldn’t even change a flat tire without assistance. A factory job for you would be like going to the moon. [/quote]

Well I suspect I am actually smart and precise enough given that I can run a research lab and I have also successfully changed a tire. But, I’m not looking for a job that will get me sick and pay me below minimum wage—I suspect no one in the US is, so have at it, you can be first in line to apply.

However, I think fiction writer is the job for you because your ability to romanticize textile mill work is outstanding.
https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/garment-workers
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My mother worked as a seamstress in a jean factory, when they still had them in the US.  Not a bad job.  Your take on manufacturing is a major impediment.  As maybe as Biden says you should try a "humane" approach to manufacturing.  What exactly is it you have against working in a factory as opposed to working in lab, and why shouldn't those be good jobs.  Ah I know you run the lab so wouldn't know why we really don't like you as an employer.  Let's enumerate some of the reasons.  Research lab jobs, they are totally unstable.  It takes way too much education for the amount of money that you get out of them.  The only thing the produce is publications, many of which are bogus to begin with.  
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IME, 90+% of what “research labs” produce is paper, to further new grant applications, to fund the research lab’s continued existence. And endless cycle of doing just enough to secure funding.

Occasionally someone (usually DARPA associated) comes up with something useful that makes it to the commercial world (Amarid fiber, the USB connector, Viagra) but mostly running a lab is a funding chase. [/quote]

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