Thread by @BlackFreelance1

It’s their jobs.

I’m not even kidding.

Anywhere from 50 to 85% of the country dislikes and even *hates* what they spend the majority of their working hours doing. The only solution to that is constant distraction.

https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1476961212512546823

Sure, holding businesses/employers accountable would be an option, but the country’s too drunk on the concept of the individual, too scared to hold employers accountable, and too invested in the status of labor endorsed by an organization to even start down that path.

We can’t even bring ourselves to use clear language when discussing their direct and overt behavior

https://twitter.com/BlackFreelance1/status/1475865065916145666?s=20

But that status part is what I think is going take us down

WAY too many of us have self-perception tied up in a career path or just the status of being employed…that’s a major hurdle to imagining a different kind of life…the kind you don’t need constant distraction from

*waking hours

And I get it…because I’ve been there…working the kind of job that’s so out of alignment with who you are that you’ll sacrifice sleep, rest, health and everything else just to feel like your life isn’t dominated by that thing you do 40hrs a week

I fought it tooth and nail until I found a better way, but most of us just settle in. By the time you’ve got a mortgage, kids, and retirement resting on that lifestyle…I’m really not sure how you turn things around.

And layer on the fact that you’ve had to make all kinds of suboptimal decisions just to maintain access to healthcare? Of course U.S. public health is in shambles

I also think this is part of the reason so many USians push back against universal coverage/M4A…they had to structure their lives around employment that held their healthcare hostage…why shouldn’t everybody else?

But overall this country is reaping the logical consequence of a business/work culture founded on chattel slavery and coerced labor. The path out of this is going to take deeper change than I think most of us want to accept.

…as usual, Black US folk especially (in this case)…we need to explore all our options and practice strategic distance management from employment. #BFTips