This is pretty insane. It feels like US institutions are crumbling

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    So the plumber would be like part time gestapo for money and power and the be a plumber too?

    I guess that kind of makes sense. I was all stressing over what happens to the people we need to do shit for us. But I guess thinking through that lens - I would have to be doing something for the regime wouldn’t I?

    I do know “aryan professionals” were only eligible for better pay and promotion if they were active party members. Engineers and professors could only work on State projects if they were a party member. I assume the same applied to electricians and plumbers - people wouldn’t hire you unless you were a party member as that was “safer”.

    18.2m were conscripted into the Whermact for 2 year obligations. Almost a quarter of the population in 1930s?

    So life was really “war” or “assist the war effort.” I guess part of that war effort would be the service jobs. Fuck.