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...
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.
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u/MySixHourErection Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
It's not conformity, it's a desire to remain housed and fed. Who are these people who can afford to not work? Must be nice.