December 22, 2018
Virtue Signaler
Jack Kemp
When I went to the NY City Council hearings on whether the City would allow Walmart into NY, I stood in line talking to two liberals. One was a young woman who was concerned about the non-union labor but understood - kind of - that this was a first job for unskilled kids, just like the ones at McDonald's. About 20 minutes later, she mentioned to the older liberal that she was going to Brooklyn Law School next year and she was looking for an apartment in a fairly expensive neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights. Where else would a liberal look?. She said she was wanted to pay up to $1500 a month for the place. It was more like her parents were willing to pay that amount. And here she was passing judgement on Walmart (they were turned down by the City Council and didn't get into NY City), using her written judgements about "proper" first jobs for the unskilled and unproven as a way to virtue signal and advance her legal school and later legal career. All this while young black, Hispanic and white kids were denied a job opportunity. As if she really cared. Those kids were just pawns to her in her careerist chess game.
Dana Mathewson adds:
When I went to the NY City Council hearings on whether the City would allow Walmart into NY, I stood in line talking to two liberals. One was a young woman who was concerned about the non-union labor but understood - kind of - that this was a first job for unskilled kids, just like the ones at McDonald's. About 20 minutes later, she mentioned to the older liberal that she was going to Brooklyn Law School next year and she was looking for an apartment in a fairly expensive neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights. Where else would a liberal look?. She said she was wanted to pay up to $1500 a month for the place. It was more like her parents were willing to pay that amount. And here she was passing judgement on Walmart (they were turned down by the City Council and didn't get into NY City), using her written judgements about "proper" first jobs for the unskilled and unproven as a way to virtue signal and advance her legal school and later legal career. All this while young black, Hispanic and white kids were denied a job opportunity. As if she really cared. Those kids were just pawns to her in her careerist chess game.
Dana Mathewson adds:
The same can be said for the idiots who want at least a $15
minimum wage. They don't understand (or care) that such wages deny jobs to kids
who use such jobs as ways to learn how to work, how to save money for school,
etc. And they don't understand that minimum wage jobs are NOT what people use to
feed families. Maybe they supplement family incomes, but nobody expects to feed
a family on a minimum wage job. Push minimum wage to $15 an hour and kids,
especially black kids, are spending their summers on the street rather than
working.
Tim adds:
Yep; those jobs are the minor leagves and it was how we used to train kids to be adults. Now the plan is to just import foreigners to "do the jobs Americans just won't do" and leave the kids to rot in their parents' basements. It may be what the kids want, too, but it is bad for society as a whole. In the end mercenaries - be they military or industrial - create a festering sore in society and wind up eating those who employed them. Just look at Rome.
Tim adds:
Yep; those jobs are the minor leagves and it was how we used to train kids to be adults. Now the plan is to just import foreigners to "do the jobs Americans just won't do" and leave the kids to rot in their parents' basements. It may be what the kids want, too, but it is bad for society as a whole. In the end mercenaries - be they military or industrial - create a festering sore in society and wind up eating those who employed them. Just look at Rome.
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