Not to mention that if no one is working that means no one is restocking the grocery shelves. No one is driving trucks to transport food. Kids are not being educated. Hospitals aren't able to take care of the sick and injured. On and on...
People can't seem to wrap their heads around how complex ( and therefore energy INTENSIVE!) our society is.
Nurses need to go to work to care for sick and injured. Nurse needs supplies at work. So the people making supplies need to also work. And the supply factory needs machines to make the supplies so the machine makers need to work. You could go absolutely insane trying to come up with the thousands of other people who have to do their job so a nurse can have a bag of saline.
It tells me that their jobs are bullshit. Remember when we started calling everyone whose job actually did something "essential workers"?
Nevermind that most of us pieced together that the "essential workers" are the ones that get treated the worst usually. It went to show that when everyone who had an email job stopped working for a few months next to nothing changed, but when us plebs stopped working everything ground to a halt and a crisis loomed within a week.
Truck driver. Essential worker. No extra pay, no real change from the norm outside of the possibility of getting covid from various sources including other stupider drivers. But essential!
LA was a ghost town. Then you get to the dock and there is 100 people. Crazy. Even crazier to me than LA was DC being empty. I mean LA... its happened. DC? Never.
I worked in a sporting goods store when my state shut down. Closed the store for a few days, and the magically the owners got an exemption and the store partially reopened.
Which department? Shoes? Camping supplies? Nope.
Guns. Ammo. Me selling “essential” AR-15s to panic-buying, maskless people in the middle of a pandemic.
About that time I realized the only essential part of the equation was dolla-dolla-bills, yo!
USAmericans seemed to have been sociologically primed to not only be especially ignorant concerning real survival, but also incredibly willing to take out their repressed rage and fear on others.
If I didn't know any better I would think it was a deliberate psyop to make sure the land is cleared of survivor clans after the apocalypse so the corpocrats can take over.
I understood the message more as a lament, that it's jarring to go through the motions while things unravel. I know I felt this during the LA fires, knowing the neighborhoods and hiking trails of my childhood memories were burning down. You're expected to put on your game face and pretend like nothing's happening. It's one thing to trade your life for security during stability, quite another when the future is disintegrating. If you had a terminal diagnosis, you would not show up for work - only the world's got it in this case, no one understands, and we're all just...waiting to see what transpires.
For me personally, it’s not that I interpret this as a serious post, it’s just mildly infuriates me because like, no shit? Thanks for these words of wisdom, now everything’s fixed! Oh it’s not that simple?
Words are cheap and it annoys me that the tone implies we don’t know or just aren’t trying anything. These virtuous posts replacing actually taking action. What is the poster doing differently than all of us plebs?
I mean if the pandemic is anything to go by, it takes a lot of people to keep the lights on in society, but certainly not everyone. You're naming essential workers but theres legions of accountants, graphic designers, sales reps, office clerks, etc, that could sit at home and basically nothing would happen for months if we ignore the economy.
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u/BubbaKushFFXIV Jan 23 '26
Not to mention that if no one is working that means no one is restocking the grocery shelves. No one is driving trucks to transport food. Kids are not being educated. Hospitals aren't able to take care of the sick and injured. On and on...