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[owlectomy]

Whoa. It did not occur to me until just now that perhaps the reason the only library jobs that exist are the ones where poor people live (that have very bad salaries) and the ones where rich people live (that are located in extremely expensive areas, where the salaries would be perfectly good if rents were not ridiculous) has something to do with the ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor, shrinking of the middle class, etc.

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[jesse_the_k]

Indeed.

And sadly this trend is not restricted to librarians, or even municipal employees. In the past month I've been driven through many Wisconsin cities where the industrial base has crumbled. Twenty years ago, a good union job at GM or Rhinelander Paper Company or Oscar Mayer supported a family and enough left over for time up north on the lake. The northern towns are half empty now; it seems tourism is the last thing to recover in a recovery, if we are indeed having one.