Thread by @bopinion

Last month, no one gave low wage workers the recognition they deserve.

It’s sad that only now people are beginning to notice
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Think of all the essential workers we have only just begun to praise—garbage collectors, food delivery workers, cashiers, mail carriers—where has our humanity gone?

Without these workers, our lives would shut down as they have already begun to
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Think for a moment about the jobs or functions that matter most as the coronavirus shuts down ever more parts of our economies, threatening to break supply chains for food, medicine and other essentials
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We cannot bite into bytes, eat algorithms or disinfect with bandwidth. Somebody has to grow, harvest and deliver our food, somebody has to care for the sick.

If these people quit or die, we’re all vulnerable
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Nobody will starve, die or suffer in the coming months if the world’s white-collar elite works temporarily from home.

But those workers which society looked down upon last month? Without them the world would descend into chaos
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Why, then, do NBA players and Oscar winners get to skip the line for virus tests, while the garbage collectors who remove our medical waste go last?
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Maybe the only good thing from the pandemic of 2020 is that we now will value every person regardless of their income. But will our united humanity continue once this is all over? It should
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