A lot of people in the United States don't want to have blue collar jobs; that includes people for whom menial labor is the only thing for which they are qualified. Their lack of qualifications doesn't mean that they're stupid; it means that the public educational system has gotten neglected for such a long time that many college graduates are practically illiterate. It's not a sign of cultural deterioration that a lot of people think that blue collar work is boring and that they want something better; it is a sign of government neglect that they're not being trained for something better.
If a lot of businesses only hire people for part-time hours, it's not only because they don't want to have full-time employees to whom they'll have to provide benefits, it's also because the turnover rate for service work is both high and constant.
If American corporations have buildings in other countries that are full of people being paid almost nothing to work all day in dangerous conditions, it's not just because it's easier and cheaper than paying American workers and treating them like human beings; it's also because slaves are too poor, tired and downtrodden to protest their totalitarian governments' human rights abuses. What corporate executive wants to deal with an irate government official in another country who is demanding to know why the workers in that corporation's factory think that the corporation supports their protests?
Copyright L. Kochman, June 10, 2016 @ 11:28 a.m.