In the Dirty jobs talk, it was interesting to see how one experience completely changed the speakers opinion of life and how things work in it. This experience was him learning how to castrate lambs and how the technique that looked more inhumane and more abusive to the animal actually was the better technique for the animal and made the suffering a lot less prolonged. He described this event as anagnorisis(discovery) and parapatilla(realization). This particular show changed the way that he thinks of the people the people that he does his show on. I was shocked to hear that the people with these dirty jobs are gnerally very happy with their life. Also Rowe said that the advice of following your passion is awful advice. I was also shocked to hear him say that safety comes third, not first when it comes to jobs. I was not shocked to that fewer people that have jobs of carpenters, plumbers ect. are seen every year. I agree that jobs aren't going to stick unless they are jobs that people want. We've learned this in economics class as well.
In the Long Live Roquefort video, A restaurant owner talks about how by Clinton putting a 100% tariff and bush increasing that tariff to 300% on roquefort cheese from France, she can't sell it anymore because of the governments actions. This tariff hurts her business because she now can't see a product that she sold in the past. This takes away from both her and the consumers. It was interesting to see how the governments actions of regulations affected this one person enough where she would start a protest against the tariff.
In the cigar video, it talks about how people used to have the job of a lector at factories. This person would read the news, current events, and novels to people when they worked. This relates to class of technology replacing jobs because this job is no longer around anymore but was an important job at the turn of the century. I didn't realize how simple certain jobs were at one point in time. All this person had to do was be able to read and write and the immigrant factory workers looked up to him for this.
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1. Why do you think it took Rowe so long to learn this new meaning of life? How has he done other jobs of similar animal abuse, abusiveness, and inhumanity, yet this one particular job of castration was the one that changed his thinking on life.
2. What causes the government to put these tariffs on products? Is there any good that comes out of the tariffs economically compared to how things were before the tariffs were put into play.
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The dirty jobs segment by Jeff Rowe discusses how his segment on lamb castration changed his way of thinking about life. He talks about how a tragedy is when a person comes face to face with his true identity. He learns that we have created a civil war on our own society. He talks about how innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time. By this he means that if you can't replicate your innovation and be able to know how it works, than the innovation is useless to society. He later talks about how safety should be third not first. He learned this when he was on the set of deadliest catch. He went to the captain and mentioned OSHA due to the dangerous waves, and the captain responded “im the captain of a crab boat, responsibility isn’t to get you home alive, get you home rich. If you want to get home alive that’s on you” This made him realize that to be successful, sometimes you have to put your self interests ahead of your safety.
In the long live Roquefort video, the Clinton and Bush administration put tariffs on Roquefort cheese in retaliation to the French not buying America's hormone fed meets. This move hurt both her business because after a while, she was no longer able to sell Roquefort cheese due to its high price. The consumers were hurt because the people who enjoyed Roquefort cheese in the past, can no longer enjoy it in the future due its limited availability from the increase in price. This is also bad because it will hurt our trade with France. This will make our relations with the country not as strong as well as limiting the wealth of our nation from restricting cheese. Both vendors and consumers can not make free choices because of this tariff.
In the cigar video, it talks about how a person with the job of a lector used to sit on a pedistool in factories and read the news, current events, and novels to the immigrant workers. They admired this person from his ability to read and write. This job is no longer available because technology and advances replaced him. Other jobs most likely opened up due to these advancements though, so the country is getting richer from the increase in technology that replaced the lector.
Good work Sam!
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