<p>On Thursday, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” uploaded part two of a recent interview with Mike Rowe, former host of “Dirty Jobs” and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, to his YouTube channel.</p>
<p>In part one, which you can check out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-rowe-we-can-be-a-safety-first-country-but-only-for-very-very-very-short-periods-of-time">here</a>, Rubin and Rowe discuss the nature of public safety as it relates to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns.</p>
<p>After noting that there appears to be “a narrative out there from a certain set of people that &#8230; going back to work [is] just too risky, and no one really wants to work anyway,” Rubin asked Rowe to speak on “the importance of work relative to finding purpose in life.”</p>
<p>“Because that actually is one of the things that I&#8217;m most worried about right now, that as we sort of give away our day-to-day lives that we&#8217;re gonna forget that work is important,” Rubin said.</p>
<p>Rowe replied, saying that it won’t “happen like a light switch,” but more like the proverbial “frog in the boiling water.”</p>
<blockquote><p>The way it’ll happen here is people like AOC and others who genuinely, or maybe not-so-genuinely, believe that work is fundamentally another expression for drudgery, are going to make those points. They’re going to reduce it to something that&#8217;s purely transactional.</p>
<p>That’s the first step, and if you only look at what you do as a means to make money, then you’re not an interesting person, okay? It’s such a one-dimensional way to look at something that should, in my view and oftentimes does, define us.</p></blockquote>
<p>“It&#8217;s the thing we choose to do with the most conscious chunk of our life, and so to reduce it to a paycheck is dumb,” Rowe continued. “Obviously, there&#8217;s a giant transactional element involved in it, but there&#8217;s so much more.”</p>
<p>Rowe then spoke about how his former TV show “Dirty Jobs” was a “tribute” to his grandfather, a man who “could take your watch apart and put it back together blindfolded,” adding that in today’s world, “trades” either go unnoticed or are in some ways looked down upon.</p>
<p>Rowe continued, remarking on the fact that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “essential worker” could wind up doing some damage.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m amazed at how we&#8217;ve taken 35 million people and deemed them “un-essential.” That, to me, is something I reckon we&#8217;re gonna look back on with great linguistic embarrassment.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rubin asked Rowe to expand on that take. “Once we say to 35 million people, you&#8217;re not essential, it&#8217;s not just about the job that they do, it&#8217;s the message that&#8217;s getting across to their lives &#8230; I think we&#8217;re gonna leave people with some sort of existential crisis.”</p>
<p>Rowe replied:</p>
<blockquote><p>People are coming to terms with the fact that their vocations don&#8217;t matter in the eyes of virtually everyone who has a show to host because in our well-intended enthusiasm to celebrate the essential workers, we&#8217;ve done a thing we always do with the language – and I am not a politically correct person, at least I try not to be – but language does matter.</p></blockquote>
<p>The former “Dirty Jobs” host contrasted the way in which we talk about “higher education” and “skilled trades.”</p>
<blockquote><p>What does “higher education” imply if not the existence of many forms of lower education, “subordinate education?” So, the language bakes in a terrible kind of analysis. If you don&#8217;t get a four-year degree, if you don&#8217;t buy into the idea that the most expensive path is the best path for the most people, then you wind up doing something – they don&#8217;t call it “lower education” because that would just be crazy – but they call it “alternative.”</p></blockquote>
<p>“We did that in education, and the unintended consequences are breathtaking,” Rowe continued. “We’re doing it now with the very heart of peoples’ identities, and we&#8217;re doing it around this simple word. We’re not meaning to do it, but you watch, it&#8217;s gonna come back over the net with a lot of topspin. People are already pissed off about it, I just don&#8217;t think they quite understand why.”</p>
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