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Counterpoint or anecdote? If you're trying to say that workers in vital industries used to have access to a stable, modest suburban lifestyle negotiated by the
by swatcoder 3y ago
Counterpoint or anecdote?
If you're trying to say that workers in vital industries used to have access to a stable, modest suburban lifestyle negotiated by their union and that the same can't be said now, I don't disagree.
But that's a separate and compounding issue, not a competing one.
- mullingitover 3y agoBy today's standards, being able to afford a three bedroom home in the LA metro area and raise two children on a single income, and not merely survive but be financially comfortable, isn't just a 'modest suburban lifestyle', it's an unimaginably rare privilege. Even if teachers are unionized, they aren't on the extreme high end of the income range for working class people.
- swatcoder 3y agoI mean, I personallg know people who live exactly that "unimaginable" life in El Monte and Baldwin Park and Rancho Cucamunga and Van Nuys and Val Verde, so I hope you know you're exaggerating for effect. But I don't even disagree with you, as I already said. Things are hard for many people, and uncertain for many more, and in many different ways. I was talking about one of them. You're talking about one of them. Neither contradicts the other.
- drewcoo 3y agoSince when are teachers working class? I had high school teachers who worked construction (working class) jobs during the summer, but that wasn't their regular work.