Is the best job you can get in Santa Cruz still a $10 an hr. gig at that plant near the Wrigley's factory making silicon chips where you have to suit up like in the core of a nuclear power plant, working from grave yard shift? The other shifts pay less.
Listening to you makes me into a orthodox M-L gotta build up the forces of production guy. What E.P. Thompson called after he split from the CPGB, "The Socialism of the Heavy Industrial Base."
But, just keep on with your hippie, utopian socialism where we will all make beads and crafts. I know Trotskyists that work in electricity power generating plants. Your type will have us all walking on tradmills for power generation. Or harnessing the pedal power of mice