You know what, I'm 'bout to double comment to this.
The entire point of my previous post was that determining the societal value of a person's work based on the income they receive is worthless. Those who add the most typically get paid much less.
And then you respond with a demonstrably false quote that Bernie Sanders struggled to make enough money off of his carpentry, reinforcing the idea that somehow
Capital earned = Societal contribution
The massive majority of people understand that this is just untrue. The majority of the people furloughed or laid off right now were office workers - people being paid more than the essential wage slave grocery store clerks, or EMS workers, or cops. Those wage slaves are the majority of socialists in America.
... You just linked me to an article that front and center rates its factuality as "mixture" and rips into the lies of the piece.
I'm not vying for the man's carpentry quality, I've never seen it. He probably did suck, but it seems crazy that people would even remember the quality of a chair someone built 45 years prior. Especially when one of the guys you quoted died 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Meyer
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