I suspect the truck sticker is meant to be sarcasm, and that the truck driver is trying to point out how dependent everyone is on trucks, because anyone who thinks about it for a little while will realize how difficult it would be to 'buy less stuff' to the extent where we are no longer dependent on trucks. There's that whole right-wing political thing in the U.S. and Canada where some truckers have been calling themselves salt-of-the-earth working-class patriots who are being unjustly persecuted, and doing things like that convoy which was so obstructive in Toronto. So this reads to me like an Everyone Hates My Poor, Embattled Honest Profession Without Which None Of Your Lives Would Work sticker.
And I'm like yeah, truckers are overworked, understaffed, and underpaid, and the unions should be more helpful on that, as soon as possible, please. But what truckers are not, in my experience at least, but also from what I know of the U.S. culture in general, though of course there may be divergent subgroups-- what truckers are not is generally vilified. Especially not to the point where that would be an even vaguely reasonable reaction.
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Date: 2022-09-22 06:22 am (UTC)And I'm like yeah, truckers are overworked, understaffed, and underpaid, and the unions should be more helpful on that, as soon as possible, please. But what truckers are not, in my experience at least, but also from what I know of the U.S. culture in general, though of course there may be divergent subgroups-- what truckers are not is generally vilified. Especially not to the point where that would be an even vaguely reasonable reaction.