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>Japan also has a much different outlook on blue collar jobs, and (from studying the culture and spending ~3 months there) people seem to take genuine pride in
by crdoconnor 9y ago
>Japan also has a much different outlook on blue collar jobs, and (from studying the culture and spending ~3 months there) people seem to take genuine pride in their job regardless of what it is.
The west seems like the weird culture here. The middle class looks down on people who make our coffees in Starbucks, drive the buses and man the trains but realistically they're the ones everybody would miss if they all suddenly didn't turn up to work on Monday morning.
- shubb 9y agoThe was a bankers strike once, in Ireland. For months. The way people busy worked around it is really amazing, because those workarounds are what the system actually needs to do, minus all the abstraction. http://uk.businessinsider.com/pubs-replaced-banks-in-ireland-in-1970-and-the-economy-was-fine-2016-1 http://uk.businessinsider.com/pubs-replaced-banks-in-ireland...
- rayiner 9y agoNot limited to the west. Indians are absolutely awful to people who work those kinds of jobs.