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Re: Dean Kamen, Manual Laborers, and You
Maybe we should clarify what manual labor means to some of us.
When I think of manual labor, I think of loading 50 lb. feed sacks in the bed of a pickup truck or on a flatbed as they drive through the warehouse line and then prepare to load more 50 lb feed sacks on the next flat bed - all day long.
I think of digging post holes and filling them with the posts and dirt to run the fence line on acres of land.
I think of mucking horse stalls and carrying water.
I think of men standing on a corner waiting for backbreaking jobs to come along in the hot sun and hope they get chosen.
That's what I mean by manual labor. There may be other definitions that I'm not aware of.
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Last edited by JaneYoung : 20-04-2010 at 21:36.
Reason: typos
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