Mike Bloomberg belittles farming, factory jobs as having less 'gray matter' Archived Message
Posted by Riverbender on February 17, 2020, 3:15 pm
Typical elitist liberal attitude that should tell the local Democrat voters what the Democrats really think about them behind their backs.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg once said that farming and factory jobs don’t require much gray matter, as opposed to information-era jobs.
In a 2016 talk at Oxford University in England, a clip of which went viral over the weekend, the 2020 Democratic presidential contender belittled both agricultural and industrial jobs as simple and simplistic.
“I could teach anybody, even the people in this room” to be a farmer, he said, calling agriculture “a process.”“You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn,” he said.
He spoke similarly of factory jobs as mechanical repetition requiring no brain power.
“You put the piece of metal in the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.”
on February 17, 2020, 3:15 pm