Justin Wolfers

They want their kids to have more creative, higher paying, less physically painful jobs than they did.

So I have literally...

No, this makes me deeply unpopular, but I have no particular sympathy for saying we need to save these jobs rather than others.

I also think, you know, there's a long economic history of this.

The US used to be predominantly an agricultural economy.

We all lived on farms.

We'd grow food for ourselves.

Then we lived on farms and we grew food for each other.

Then we invented factories and people left the land for the factories.

And do you know what the populace back then used to say?

We've got to look after the American farm because all these people are moving to these highfalutin fancy factories.

Now, what's happened is we've moved up the value chain and we're now in the service sector.

And what we have is these people who remember the 1960s who are like, well, that was the path to the American middle class.

We've got to stop this move out of the factories into the service sector.

But I happen to think that service sector work is noble.

I happen to think, know that it pays well.

I know that it can indulge many people's passions.

I, you know, I'm just okay with, you know, all jobs matter.

First of all, I'd check in on the constitution because you have to be American.

So let me speak to, I think the economic issue no one speaks enough about.