Mark F,
Based on your post today, you are very likely the poster who I was referring to. However, I did not characterize you as a "dismissive poster", only that the poster was dismissive of the service jobs likely created by the enterprise in question. This is not a small difference.
By the way, are you associating me with the "right wing gladhanders" trying to lead the stupefied Western masses to their perdition? Just asking in case I need to go and condition my leather-like not-so-thin skin.
To clarify the record, I have worked in the retail and the hospitality industries. During undergraduate school, I was a bartender a couple of nights a week and a starter at the university golf course. In my first year of graduate school, I helped start a jeans store on the main drag at the university, working half-time during the term, and full-time during vacations. Lastly, I was an asset manager for a few years responsible for several hotels and a couple golf courses.
Many of the service jobs you dismiss are not meant to be careers. Some are entry level jobs that people can use to develop work skills, a reputation for results and honesty, and a resume, then, perhaps as a springboard for promotion or even entrepreneurship. For those who don't or can't obtain more attractive positions, do you propose they remain unemployed?
I don't know the "standard education" in your part of the world. In the U.S., despite huge real increases in per-student expenditures, performance appears unabated in its secular (long-term) downward trend. Not coincidentally, here in the U.S., education is a government monopoly. Do you really want to argue that more government regulation of the economy is the cure to the world's ills?
By the way, I got through the university on my own with very little debt in part because of the income from those service jobs. I saw them for what they were- an opportunity to make some money- and never, never felt like a serf. Of course, growing-up with meager resources, I didn't feel poor, thought about class divisions, or envied and hated "the Rich".
As to economics, those who seek to minimize it and establish barriers to its natural force do so at socieity's detriment. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao et. al. tried and history has clearly recorded the results. Ditto for Castro's Cuba, and the still evolving situation in Venezuela with Chavez. Utopians can try all sorts of measures to change human nature. The results are uniformally disastrous for humanity.
For those with open, inquiring minds, I recommend Bryan Caplan's recent book "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies". It is not an easy read, but it references numerous studies, articles, and books, and sheds very interesting insights worthy of serious consideration.
Three of the four widely-held harmful and incorrect biases addressed by Professor Caplan are particularly relevant to the Trump discussion (anti-foreigner, anti-market, make work). The fourth, toward pessimism (the future won't be as good as the present or past) also applies to a number of the posts appearing on this site relative to golf and its architecture.
As to Detroit and Buffalo, both have lost huge populations as important industries have left for various reasons. Again, it is not a coincidence that both areas have been for a very long time highly regulated and very unfriendly toward business and enterprise.
Love to hate corporations and businesspeople like Trump? Please consider that without them and the jobs they create, most of us are left to our devices. Personally, I vote for wealth creation and the standards of living a vast majority of us here enjoy.