I think I know why these clowns think they hold so much power over the economy. Let me tell you a little bit about my dad.
My dad is a selfish manbaby. I think he was an incel in spirit, but perhaps because of the era he was born in (the 1950s), he did the standard-issue thing and married my mum, and had kids. When they got together he was training to become an engineer, but when my eldest brother came along he dropped that in a heartbeat, approached a couple of local hotels, and offered to clean their windows. Now, providing for your wife and kids in any way necessary is a noble enough thing to do, and god knows, I know it's more than some dads do. But he spent pretty much the rest of his career cleaning windows.
He worked stupidly long hours. We didn't live particularly close to the hotels, and the hotels wanted the windows cleaned early in the morning, before most guests were up and about, so he used to get up at 4am to go do his cleaning. He'd stay out a very long time and be knackered when he got home.
I'll say again that I recognise and respect this work ethic, at least at face value. However, here comes the But, and it's a big But. He never made a decision to be more efficient, and just kept on doing the same job for most of the rest of his life. He never decided to make his life easier by picking up where he'd left off with his engineering training (and I think part of this was because he basically hated most people. He became a clerk when he was too old to wash windows, which meant he was away from people most of the time, but he still rubbed people up the wrong way often enough). And he moaned about how life was so much tougher for him than it was for anyone else.
As far as he was concerned, he moved mountains and was lord and master of his household. But he never did much more than clean glass and write reports.
