The host of Dirty Jobs said that when asked about the debate of the raising the minimum wage in April 2021.
Mike Rowe is a flaming pile of dog doodoo. Didn’t he and Discovery do a special on how fossil fuels aren’t bad for the environment?
Friendly reminder that Mike Row is literally a paid propagandist for the Koch family.
I really enjoyed dirty jobs because it appeared to be promoting recognition for the working class. Should have caught on when obvious safety considerations were downplayed for laughs, bit my optimism got the better of me.
Just think if they used the same devious approach to improve things instead of tearing them down. Maybe the approach wouldn’t work the other way around.
artificially high wage
The wages are currently artificially low. Everyone who is sane wants them brought up to the correct level.
How did he go from ‘Dirty Jobs’ to this…
Dirty Jobs was actually celebrating how people were still working those jobs for crap pay and ignoring safety regulations for the benefit of companies while pretending to celebrate the workers. If you go back with the mindset of “how would a company try to make its terrible treatment of workers look good” it is a lot more apparent.
I loved dirty jobs at the time before finding out.
He’s always been a conservative PoS.
“I worry that the path to a skilled trade can be compromised when you offer an artificially high wage for, I hate the expression, but an unskilled job. So to me, the brightest line needs to be drawn between skilled and unskilled work. We need to encourage more people to learn a skill that’s actually in demand,” he said.
How about they both make more?
$15 is an “artificially high wage”. How disconnected are you, you dunce? That’s $30k a year, while the cheapest apartment anywhere is over $1000 a month. That leaves you $1,500 a month for food, car, utilities, basic needs. And that ain’t shit.
Mike Rowe has a micro penis.
I know we’ve been over this before, but “unskilled” jobs are necessary, Mike. The people who do them deserve to live too, my guy. The poverty wages aren’t the only thing motivating people to avoid those jobs, and that should be firsthand knowledge for you, pal.
And it’s not like it takes a lot of skill to look down your nose at people for 10 seasons of television. With all due respect, kindly fuck off.
Is there a particular reason this scumbag’s “opinion” is worth posting here?
The moment I hear someone try to call ANY job “unskilled labor”, I have to fight the urge to shove the tools into their hands and say, “Okay, YOU do it, then, since it’s so simple.”
@AuthorInkwell @jxPTkCXcakcoGNmdhtur There is no such thing as “unskilled labor.”
Say it with me everyone and repeat it at least 3 times so it’ll sink in…
It doesn’t really matter how “skilled” or “unskilled” a job is, what matters is how essential the job is and the availability of people willing to do the job. As we’re seeing in many industries, people are striking to get higher wages, and companies are finding out just how much they need these “unskilled” laborers. A federal minimum wage is just accepting the reality that no matter how unskilled a job is, many are rather essential to the function of industry and society, and it’s skipping the part where the workers have to strike to prove it to the corporations.
I get Kevin Spacey vibes off this douche.
