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I talked to a democrat voter recently about factory work, they where like 'Oh I dont think anyone should do factory work, its so inhumane!' to which im just like, well i've worked in a factory before, it was pretty good - just do the same shit all day and clock out, dont really think about work afterwards and the jobs easy enough - only issue was pay and working hours.
I dont know, I think westerners are in for a big shock when they realize the work thats 'beneath' them will be required for most people when the ability to have a nothing/bullshit job collapses with American hegemony, which is why we need to make this work pay well.
I would have happyily worked in a factory my entire life if the hours where reasonable and it afforded me a family and a house.
I think it can heavily depend which exact place you work at, I worked at a place assembling cardboard products and it was extremely chill and respectful, would still be doing it if I wasn't forced to quit due to moving. Meanwhile, I've also worked shortly in a plastic factory where I felt like I was inside a Nazi labor camp. Rude micromanagement, machines set to inhuman speeds, no phones or anything allowed, no going to your car at lunch, carcinogenic fumes and particles everywhere, ruthless firing of sick employees, shifts that can exceed 14 hours if there is a meeting, using and hiring active prisoners with crimes like assault and treating everyone at that level, people frequently losing fingers due to equipment failures, etc.
Yeah totally. Lets not romanticize working on an assembly line as a human machine. It can be mentally understimulating and hard on the body. At the end of the day we should be for automation under socialism so that it can free us from this drudgery.