seems almost like this is by one of those  nasty "neoliberal" types razzing ya personally about your delusions about "working people"

A by-the-way related: did you notice that lately there are fewer and fewer of those "working people" wanting a job of any kind much less a 9-to-5 on an assembly line?

Have you seen the stories about begging, just begging for truck drivers to move that "made in the USA"  merch? Have you seen the similar stories of the epidemic of theft of cargo and destruction of cargo on train cargo cars?

Have you noticed that it's not 1996 anymore and Bill Rubin is no longer Treasury Secretary? And that trade has fallen off the cliff because of a worldwide pandemic now beginning its third year?

Another BTW, did you see how after Brexit nearly everyone who wants a job in the UK will soon have to find work where it is in mass quantities: in the Customs Bureau (shades of Kafka)?