politics and work

For those who are interested in politics and political marketing of opinions and content, you might be interested in this article about a pair of billionaire brothers using big funds against Obama.  I thought it might be of interest but it can be depressing and scary, depending on your views.

I am not very much into politics but as a supporter of public and truly helpful education, I find the article worth reading and being worried by.  It happens I am also listening to an audiobook by Matthew Crawford on the nature and history of employed work since about 1900.  It is "Shop Class as Soul Craft" and provocatively covers the nature of work from the days of carriage making for horses up to today, including both manual work and desk work.  Crawford evidently runs, or ran, a motorcycle repair shop after getting a PhD in political philosophy from the Univ. of Chicago and finding that work in the world of finance was not satisfying. 

As the son of a tool-and-die maker and the stepson of a pipe-fitter, I am interested in how people get into one job or another.  It is not a random process, being subject to educational and guidance pressures as well as supply and demand of goods and services, as well, of course, as individual tastes and abilities and idealized pictures of kinds of work