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2019-09-04 Economy
‘Servant Class' that Serves the Rich Among Fastest Growing U.S. Workforces
[Breitbart] A "servant class" that serves the needs of the country’s top one percent is among one of the fastest-growing job markets in the United States, economic analysis finds.

As about 1.2 million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S. every year to take primarily low-wage jobs, an underclass of servants for the wealthy has boomed over the last decade compared with overall job growth.

Research by MIT’s David Autor reveals that servant class jobs like manicurists and pedicurists have grown 114 percent between 2008 and 2018. Meanwhile, all U.S. jobs have grown just seven percent in that same time period.

Likewise, massage therapist jobs have grown 105 percent over the last decade, family therapist jobs have grown 98 percent, skincare specialist jobs have grown 93 percent, and animal caretaker jobs have grown nearly 60 percent.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 00:46|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 That's not the half of it.

Tally up all the highly-aid professionals who are in essence guarding the wealth of the billionaires:

- the private wealth managers, tax lawyers, and accountants;

- the private schools and private tutors and private athletic coaches, trainers, grooms, sailboat skippers, etc for the kids;

- the thousands of family nonprofit foundation officials, grant administrators, PR flacks, and others on the payroll of tgeee multi-million (or even billion) $$$ vanity vehicles...

Every billionaire in this country has probably a few hundred or more people on his payroll earning over $100k each.

That's at least another 200,000 workers you can add to our oligarchs' servant class.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 02:03||   2019-09-04 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I know an ex-officer who settled in Virginia to be a Yoga and fitness instructor to some very private bigwigs. He now earns double of what his superiors could hope to collect on superannuation.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-04 03:45||   2019-09-04 03:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Likewise, massage therapist jobs have grown 105 percent over the last decade

..another Chinese import?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 05:21||   2019-09-04 05:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Ref #1: Tally up all the highly-aid professionals who are in essence guarding the wealth of the billionaires: - the private wealth managers, tax lawyers, and accountants; - the private schools and private tutors and private athletic coaches, trainers, grooms, sailboat skippers, etc for the kids;

Don't forget the politicians whose pockets are greased from oligarch donations. Little wonder support in the Congress for the Orange Man is lagging. Butter, meet thy bread.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 06:11||   2019-09-04 06:11|| Front Page Top

#5 ...well when one party screams constantly about stealing what the wealthy have, it shouldn't come as a surprise the rich utilize their resources to protect their resources. How much corruption of our government has been just because of that? /rhet question
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 08:30||   2019-09-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Faster than the cancerous growth of unionized (quote) civil servants (unquote) and "administration staff" in the education sector?
Posted by magpie 2019-09-04 10:41||   2019-09-04 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Livery and maintenance?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-04 10:59||   2019-09-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Any migrant on less than average wage is harming the economy.

Also they are very likely paying less in tax than they are using in resources and economic effects on Americans.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-04 14:54||   2019-09-04 14:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Sun Valley Idaho, come witness it first hand....
Posted by 746 2019-09-04 19:51||   2019-09-04 19:51|| Front Page Top

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