I hate how he had a show promising working- class stories that turned out to just feature small business tyrants and land owners. Citations Needed had a good episode about his grift.
It was kind of inevitable given the premise. If you’re gonna secure the permission to film people doing “dirty jobs” it means going through the business owner and of course they’ll want to look good in the final product.
I’m much more annoyed by an opera singer turned QVC host turned reality TV host lecturing people on the values of taking on labor that wrecks your body. Once again, reactionaries lionize lifestyle and career choices they themselves wouldn’t touch with a hundred foot pole.
To these types, small business owners ARE the working class. Actual workers don’t even register as people to them, they see us as disposable suckers who they tricked into making them rich.
That’s why you see all this push for everyone to become an individual small business owner. In a post-labor world, only the people lucky enough to have millions to start a business and beat the odds of said business failing, or those who inherited their business have any “right” to even exist.
Source: I’ve seen the inside of some of these business types. Although they don’t use the language (and I’m not sure if they intentionally understand it this way), but these business types have tons of class solidarity and practically have a reverse-engineered Marxist worldview. This is why we see the rise of networking, porks genuinely want to live in a world where only their fellow porks exist so networking is then seeing you as a friend and giving you permission to have an income out of the kindness of their hearts.
I hate how he had a show promising working- class stories that turned out to just feature small business tyrants and land owners. Citations Needed had a good episode about his grift.
It was kind of inevitable given the premise. If you’re gonna secure the permission to film people doing “dirty jobs” it means going through the business owner and of course they’ll want to look good in the final product.
I’m much more annoyed by an opera singer turned QVC host turned reality TV host lecturing people on the values of taking on labor that wrecks your body. Once again, reactionaries lionize lifestyle and career choices they themselves wouldn’t touch with a hundred foot pole.
“I write songs for the people who do jobs in the towns that id never move to.” - bo Burnham, country song
To these types, small business owners ARE the working class. Actual workers don’t even register as people to them, they see us as disposable suckers who they tricked into making them rich.
That’s why you see all this push for everyone to become an individual small business owner. In a post-labor world, only the people lucky enough to have millions to start a business and beat the odds of said business failing, or those who inherited their business have any “right” to even exist.
Source: I’ve seen the inside of some of these business types. Although they don’t use the language (and I’m not sure if they intentionally understand it this way), but these business types have tons of class solidarity and practically have a reverse-engineered Marxist worldview. This is why we see the rise of networking, porks genuinely want to live in a world where only their fellow porks exist so networking is then seeing you as a friend and giving you permission to have an income out of the kindness of their hearts.