We need a grand, glorious, soaring monument—maybe many of them--to the working poor. All of world’s slaves, serfs, tenant farmers, indentured servants, starving immigrants, railroad builders, sweatshop workers, ditch diggers, coal miners and all of them I’ve forgotten or never knew about. From the pyramids on, they built the great monuments, made agriculture profitable, made manufacturing work, carried the economy on their broken backs, created great fortunes for the few.
The sublime beauty of these accomplishments is not complete without recognizing the sweat, pain, sacrifice and death that went into them. Build the monument(s).
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