Mentioned my previous blog, Mike Rowe reminds us that we have declared a war on work.
While we have declared war on work from various fronts, the particular one that bothers me the most is the mindset we have of manual/menial/dangerous work.
For example, the iPhone is a wonderful modern tool that connects us, and is brought to us by these innovative and aspiring companies.
But we do not recognise, or even choose to ignore, the traditional factories that produces the pieces of the iPhone, and the hands of the workers that piece them together.
Like Rowe says, we must not forget that innovation without imitation doesn't work. The obsession for innovation should not blind us to the these networks of manual labour that give us these automated technology. These are the sides of the same coin.
