Thursday, August 22, 2013

Stephen Kloosterman, you pissed off the wrong guy

You've got to read this. Clown asks “Are Bad Jobs Good for the Economy and the People Who Work Them?” and uses a picture of Mike Rowe(of Dirty Jobs fame) in it.
Mr. Rowe has a problem with both the use of his picture and the article.
And tells Kloosterman about it.
In detail.

Just borrowing a couple of bits:
SK – People working odd jobs or doing day labor for money under the table sometimes do so because it’s the only option they have, we wrote.
MR – Agreed. But nowhere do you suggest that having one option is better than having no option. Certainly, these people are struggling, but they have not given up. They have not become wards of the state. They are looking for and in many cases finding a way to get by in a brutal economy. Certainly not ideal, but the Glass-Half Empty Restriction and the Context Clause of the DJCC both prohibit my endorsement of all “one-sided comparisons that fail to illustrate how things could always be much, much worse.”

and
SK – A few might even quote the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
MR – That’s very sweet. Unfortunately, the Delusional Thinking Restriction of the DJCC is very clear on this: “under no circumstances will artist’s name and likeness be used to declare or proclaim anything that might suggest the endorsement of a utopian or fairy-tale state.”


2 comments:

og said...

Ooh, that's good, I'm stealing it.

Rey B said...

Stolen and sent to the Book of Faces.