The job backgrounds of our politicians currently in parliament… be nice to have some more people who have actually lived in the “real world” representing us? 🤔
The job backgrounds of our politicians currently in parliament… be nice to have some more people who have actually lived in the “real world” representing us? 🤔
> Of the 51 MPs who previously held blue-collar or service jobs, half are in the Labor Party, a by-product of the party’s roots in the labour movement. This means 27 per cent of Labor MPs have blue-collar or service experience.
That’s just blue-collar, there’d be plenty of others who worked other “real-world” jobs. 4 MPs didn’t even finish highschool.
Soft-Butterfly7532 on
Shouldn’t we want people who have experience in the field they’re working in?
We don’t say of a doctor “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this medical experience”
We don’t say of engineers “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this engineering experience”.
But we say of politicians “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this political experience”.
-Johannes-of-ZA- on
The lawyers aren’t the problem. We work crazy hours and mostly work for and get know a very big cross section of society.
The other ones are the problem. Apparatchik bastards.
Neonaticpixelmen on
Union official is right there.
Sure there are “career unionists” but that tends to come from the fact a lot of industries will blanket ban union employees from higher positions, at most you’ll probably get a floor manager being unionised, but they’d never get promoted to regional, unless it’s an SDA type situation where the union is an industry plant.
My Grandfather became head of the largest Australian rubber manufacturer union in the 80s, he was eventually voted out but it became impossible for him to get a job back in that industry as union workers were seen as “trouble” he ended up being a self employed aquarium builder, and shop keep.
GaryTheGuineaPig on
That’s why Trump was so successful.
He’s a very accomplished businessman, knows how the system works & knows how to do a deal.
These days, it feels like the only people interested in becoming a politician are ideologically driven lefties with some pretty funky ideas.
Coincidently the reason why the left hate him is that he reminds them of all their failures.
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There’s no category here for the real world though, e.g. a catch-all “other” category.
People like Jackie Lambie and David Pocock wouldn’t appear here at all.
EDIT: It’s a couple of years old now, but [this infographic](https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2021/careers-before-politics/) has a caption at one point:
> Of the 51 MPs who previously held blue-collar or service jobs, half are in the Labor Party, a by-product of the party’s roots in the labour movement. This means 27 per cent of Labor MPs have blue-collar or service experience.
That’s just blue-collar, there’d be plenty of others who worked other “real-world” jobs. 4 MPs didn’t even finish highschool.
Shouldn’t we want people who have experience in the field they’re working in?
We don’t say of a doctor “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this medical experience”
We don’t say of engineers “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this engineering experience”.
But we say of politicians “I wish they had lived in the real world instead of having this political experience”.
The lawyers aren’t the problem. We work crazy hours and mostly work for and get know a very big cross section of society.
The other ones are the problem. Apparatchik bastards.
Union official is right there.
Sure there are “career unionists” but that tends to come from the fact a lot of industries will blanket ban union employees from higher positions, at most you’ll probably get a floor manager being unionised, but they’d never get promoted to regional, unless it’s an SDA type situation where the union is an industry plant.
My Grandfather became head of the largest Australian rubber manufacturer union in the 80s, he was eventually voted out but it became impossible for him to get a job back in that industry as union workers were seen as “trouble” he ended up being a self employed aquarium builder, and shop keep.
That’s why Trump was so successful.
He’s a very accomplished businessman, knows how the system works & knows how to do a deal.
These days, it feels like the only people interested in becoming a politician are ideologically driven lefties with some pretty funky ideas.
Coincidently the reason why the left hate him is that he reminds them of all their failures.
Well to be fair law kind of makes sense