21 May 09 05:29, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

 BK>>>>  Why do you object to autoworkers earning a middle class wage?

 BA>>> Because $40/hour plus benefits is too much to pay for what is
 BA>>> basically unskilled labor.

 RW>> In fact, unskilled labor should be getting minimum wage.

 BA>>> Skilled craftsmen make less than that in most places.

 RW>> Journeyman Tool & Die Makers don't make that much. Without them,
 RW>> there woldn't be any mass production.

 BA> I've read that for many years Tool & Die making has been a dying art.

Nobody wants to work for peanuts.

 BA> Apparently nobody wants to get into that field.

I think they would, if there was enough incentive to enter it. It's a
great way to satisfy your creative self, making something useful from raw
materials. I personally wanted to be a proto-type builder, which my
training as a T&DM allowed me to do, eventually. Most T&DMs who stay with
the company who apprenticed them, move up to engineering if they're good.

                R\%/itt

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