> My point is being poor doesn't mean your car never needs a mechanic. I know poor people who are decent at basic car maintenance (once again, the sorts of th

> My point is being poor doesn't mean your car never needs a mechanic. I know poor people who are decent at basic car maintenance (once again, the sorts of things where you get high margins). I also know wealthy people who are car enthusiasts, but they wouldn't want to get their hands dirty, so they'd rather pay someone to do it for them. You're speaking in absolutes when the market relies on relative differences. This particular point isn't too significant though, since ideally, most poor people wouldn't need to own a car (they would use public transit instead). > Non sequitur. Plenty of un-outsourceable jobs exist serving people who are not wealthy. Non sequitur. The goal is to optimize new job creation. The service industry is one of the fastest growing in America, so it makes sense to harness that. > Where do I speak of dream jobs? I'm just saying it's awfully self-centered to think that the poor exist to serve the wealthy. And I'm just saying that worrying about whether the poor can have their dream job (where they don't have to serve the wealthy) is something you can worry about when chronic unemployment hasn't been dragging down the economy for the last several years.