Monday, September 5, 2022

Workers

 Wealth accumulates on the backs of workers, workers who are at the same time both necessary and expendable—slaves, serfs, indentured servants, immigrants, migrant workers, sweatshop workers, child labor, fast food workers. The wealth accumulated is beyond any reasonable need and allows the wealthy to turn themselves from oppressors into admired philanthropists. 

As a culture, we dismiss workers just as the wealthy do, though they serve all of us. They’re in the fields, on the roofs, in the factories, serving fast food. You may have been one of them at one time. You may one of them now.


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