It would really help if the liberal metropolitans stopped calling those less educated as themselves as 'thickos'.
It shows a real ignorance of the situation those less well off have found themselves in over the last 30 years.
Just 30 years? This is a can of worms suitable for a thread of it's own.
If you like, Read Blyton and Turnbull's Dynamics of the employee relationship. You will not come away from the text with any bias towards management, the Unions or the Govt.. What you will surmise is sheer incompetence (and complacency) of management, the militancy of Unions and governments who didn't create policies that were conducive to industry. We still maintain corporate snort termism, we still have boards of directors made up of individuals without legislative structure, we still have a 'them and us' culture in the workplace...
I'll stop there.