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Right, as a percentage of the total employed population, the benefits of your dad's job were much more rare than yours are today. Remember how many more people
by Schiendelman 4mo ago
Right, as a percentage of the total employed population, the benefits of your dad's job were much more rare than yours are today. Remember how many more people were working in manufacturing and agriculture at that point. This is a flattening. I'm also betting you make significantly more dollars, inflation adjusted, then he did.
- rwmj 4mo agoThe factory workers at the same company had respectable jobs and also gold-plated salaries. They were unionized but the only time I remember the union taking collective action was when the company was threated by a take-over by (what we'd now call) a private equity asset stripper. Together with management they successfully fought off the bid. And in case you're thinking this all sounds very inefficient, the same company still exists today.
- Schiendelman 4mo agoI think that sounds great. Very rare, but great. What do they make? Or what did they make back in those times?