Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor

is he part ferengi? check out those forehead wrinkles.

That was an amazing talk.
So intelligent and insightful.
Thank you.

Great Lecture!
I would love to see a segment of Mike Rowe Dirty Jobs in Congress or as a Washington Lobbies...talk about little "lambs" castration and biting voters testicles...

best lecture ive ever seen, to me it was empowering and i never new mike rowe was such a intelegen and great speaker

hes more intelligent than he portrays on the show

He's not placing more value on low-skilled, low paying jobs specifically. He described a millionaire pig farmer & trade schools. These are not necessarily low-paying jobs nor low skilled. The one consistency is that they are dirty. I agree: a demand for any job (like plumbers) should not be artificially inflated. It should reflect the natural needs and desires of consumers. I think hes protesting the stigma that has been attached to dirty jobs and the value placed on pursuing a dream job

I like the idea of a PR campaign for work

"people with dirty jobs are happier than you think" he obviously hasn't visited the dirty jobs i've worked at.

enlightening, glad you got that from his speech.

Why does Mike Rowe remind me of Steve Jobs? Maybe it's the way he's presenting himself, or it's the microphone. No matter, he's still interesting.

And the reason why there is a shortage of "low skilled" jobs is because nobody wants to do them. They usually pay very little, because very little training is required. Practically anyone could do them.

Even in Finland, where I live, there is a shortage of those kinds of workers EVEN THOUGH they get payed very much.

Of course a certain amount of "tradeworkers" are needed, as we do need plumbers, etc. But having lots of them is not good for the economy.

And no, you need very, very little training to do most of the jobs he is talking about.

And as I said, it's better to be highly trained and highly PRODUCTIVE. Lawyers don't produce anything, although they are highly trained, so they aren't any good for the economy either.

It's a pity the USA is so litigious.

The key to economic growth is productivity. The more that is produced per capita, the better. In short, the more productive a society, the richer it is.

Example:
A low-productivity industry has lots of cheap workers doing trivial tasks.

A high-productivity industry has robots doing the trivial tasks, so the workers can do more productive things (requires training and skill). In this scenario, the amount produced per factory worker is something like double of the first factory -> double wealth.

Our economy is made up of Money, earned and spent. At the end Mike talks about 'Skilled trades' .In MHO these are Not as you put all "low-skill" jobs. If they were ,there wouldn't be a huge shortage of Skilled workers to fill the void. Look though a phone book and see how many Lawyers you find. Do you feel thye represent the 'betterment' of our economy Fatmanprime ?

He places value on the jobs that keep Americans working. He also places value on jobs that will be destoyed by the EPA, Al Gore, and Obama with their enviromental regulations. With the incoming socialist enviro regulations these small companies will not be able to work.