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>They were, therefore, the first to clamor
for the "welfare state," which they expected not only to shield them
against emergencies but to keep them in the professions and callings
they had inherited from their families." <

It's interesting, not surprising, how this relates to the previous e-mail's 
content in that the apparent, or not so apparent depending on you 
perspective, chasm betwixt the trades and the professionals has in many ways 
to do with how we get there now versus how we got there then.

It's hard for me to find peers in the trades side of my social complex that 
came to their work by inheritance. Rather we seem to have gone adrift at 
some point and gravitated to it. Clearly from that perspective someone who 
came to it through academic rigor must somehow be different...or better...or 
something.

I'm happy being who I am and being part of this revolution since the last 
one seems to be lost on the new generation.

Rowdy

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