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What Jobs Do You Want Back?
This Chap Noted That …
Robert DeNiro’s recent speech, reported on here in the Guardian …
included the observation that Charlie Chaplin would not be allowed into the US today due to Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
It reminded this chap of the intersection between Chaplin …
pun intended?
.. his beliefs and the call by some idiots that we need to bring jobs back to America. These are the kinds of jobs - even today - that have gone. Do you really want them back?
Then there’s the other side – people with few discernible skills placed in positions where they are, evidently, way out of their depth –
while fully convinced they are the best ever. (See Dunning-Kruger effect.)
Uncanny how National Lampoon captured the present-day entourage, all those years ago.