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:
Ooh, that's good, I'm stealing it.
Stolen and sent to the Book of Faces.
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