> how privileged and detached we are from real labor Speak for yourself. My partner is a horticulturist, a job which involves rather a lot of manual labour, an

> how privileged and detached we are from real labor Speak for yourself. My partner is a horticulturist, a job which involves rather a lot of manual labour, and was one of the union reps for the Botanic Gardens at which he worked for a while. And I still think unions are a very good idea. Maybe this is a non-American view, and his counterpart unionized horticulturists in the US are all taking bribes on the side. But I can't see it. It feels like the problem is that construction unions - which, yep, got pretty notorious for corruption - are the only unions people know about, not the ones quietly working to fight for their members' rights.