It wasn't a put down. I was trying to state I know - in this rare case - what I am talking about.
Don't we all believe that we do?
I spent nine years in factories, in one capacity or another, yet my first-hand knowledge of shop-floor industrial labour manipulation goes for nothing. I lived through stikes, 'scab' insults and all of the rest of it. What did I learn? The 'man in the street' is dumber than most of the dogs that I have loved, and at whose deaths I have wept.
Rob C