Or a 21st century poultry processing plant worker.<p>I think his point is that those jobs still exist, the working poor are still suffering as much as they always have been, and that there&#x27;s been a recent reversal in progress.<p>My ancestors worked in shitty conditions that destroyed their bodies to see that their descendents could have a better life. And, here we are, and their descendants are living relatively as terribly as they did.