From: Jim Carroll - PM
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 01:58 PM
I was an electrician not a shelf-stacker
If I am forced to choose between between (sic) stacking shelves, leaving home and family or starving, the society we live under has ceased to function.

Of course, no-one wants to end up stacking shelves. it is demeaning, it is a job for those beyond contempt.

Alternately, it is a job that needs to be done. It is paid employment.

Society has not "ceased to function" just because it is necessary that someone does this work.

But if Jim believes it is below his station, then he believes there are jobs which must be done, but which he would not demean himself to do.

Clearly Jim does not want to be considered as one of the workers.

I also have problems with the phrase "the society we live under". we are all part of "society" it is not over, or above us. We are part of it.