On the Menial in Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Bones,

Mr. Poster here

But they aren't the right KIND of jobs. I mean, it’s MENIAL work. With your HANDS. Not a DESIRABLE job like being an Essential State Worker in a casino! porcupine @ Sat 29 Oct 1:06 AM

may be no _echt_ Blue Blazer, only a cultivated despiser, red in neck and claw. The casino crack suggests as much.

Still, in one way he is quight whight: commercial fisheries are scarcely going to ring in the Brave New Taxachusetts.

As everybody ought to know by now, that historic rôle is strictly reserved for Medicine/ Frankenetics and Tertiary Educationalism ("¡Think H*rv*rd, Mass General, and Genzyme!") with perhaps a small assist from venticulture , especially on sunny days with the wind behind us [1] as well as Mlle. de la Main Invisible drawing us [2] ever onwards and up 24/7 from the vanguard.

Now, none of these triune economic saviors is particular ‘menial’, but that is not what makes them salvific. Or certainly not the main factor. E-comrade Pëtr Otyètsovich has done us such a nifty little fandango -- ""... navigator, engineer, meteorologist, … EMT, cook, refrigerator repair (¿huh?) , biologist, businessman, ...." to that tune that I feel a little bad about pointing out that ‘meniality’ and its reverse have really not much to do with our poor MA’s case one way or the other. But there it is, _et magis amica Veritas_: keeping one's hands clean is all very well, but what *really* matters (I think, quite possibly erroneously) is that Tert. Ed. and the twin Frankenrackets do not require any raw materials worth mentioning.. Whereas fishing depends on ... well, let's face it . . . on FISH.

(Now there is a four-letter ‘F’-word if there ever was one.)

In the Keynesian, or even in the Chicagonomic, long run there may be problems about MA having specialized in doing well what can be done (and, in principle, done equally well) anywhere at all, but that will be then, and, ¡O lucky us! -- now is still only now. For the moment.

Happy days.

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[1] The usual suspects have deposed that "Sectors vital to the Massachusetts economy include higher education, biotechnology, finance, health care, and tourism."

Sorry, Mr. Peter, and you too, King Jimmy: no mention at all of the Trade Apostolick. Rather a low blow, that, considering that Big LEW manages to notice "the second largest cranberry producing state in the union (after Wisconsin)."

And (there) is yet another good reason to stand up and holler, "¡Curse you, Paul Ryan!"

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[2] ’Tis all vaguely _Faust_like, _¿no es verdad?_