The factory job and the American dream

From behind our keyboards, it’s sometimes hard for the laptop class to believe that anyone in America actually wants to, say, work in a sneaker factory.

Progress, to a certain sort of progressive Democrat, means that we can all work in the idea economy and leave the physical economy to other parts of the world. This is a fine aspiration for the media class, but the odd thing is that they assume everyone in America feels the same way.

So a recent survey on manufacturing jobs seemed to confirm all the class biases of our scribblers.

“Americans want more U.S. factory jobs—as long as they don’t have to work them,” ran the Yahoo News headline.

“Americans,” Yahoo noted, “overwhelmingly say the U.S. would be better off

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