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Hot take ig but kids in high school shouldn't have to work either. They should be spending their evenings doing homework and extra-curriculars and fucking around.

There definitely shouldn't be entire industries reliant on their low-wage labor. Why are that many kids being scheduled for a 6 hour shift after a 7 hour school day when they've got learning and their future and their childhood to worry about?

Any industry built on poverty wage child labor should perish, and that's most fast food and grocery and retail so I guess the economy's tanked 🤷. Should've thought about that before deciding to make the essential work into jobs for children and the underclass.

You can also stop pretending that capitalism is voluntarism.

This is what I mean when I say that being an essential worker under a strike ban is basically just being so critical to the functioning of society that you are no longer deemed a human in the eyes of the law.

The job is essential. The bodies that perform it are not.

You can also stop pretending that capitalism is voluntarism.

hot take but every “essential worker” who had to interact with The Public through this pandemic should get a fucking pension

my mental health in 2019: not fantastic but keeping it together 

my mental health after working retail through a pandemic: (imagine hot melted plastic being injected into an ice cold geometrically impossible waffle iron)

Some rando: boy i can’t wait until this is all over so i can finally go out and interact with people again, amiright guys!!

Any retail/food service worker anywhere:

It's hard to explain how alienating the media has been this year as an "essential worker". Every single piece of media produced this year is about how "we're all" stuck inside all the time now, and I'm just like..... I got two weeks at home when I actually had covid and otherwise have gone to work every single day I normally would. All these adverts and news show lines about how we're all in this together and we're all spending our days baking banana bread and zoom calling and all this and I'm like..... Well, not all of us I guess. And it's weirdly alienating and makes you feel weird and cut off

we need to talk about this more. being forgotten by capitalism is deeply terrifying, because when we’re not marketable we don’t exist.

I don’t even know anyone irl whose lives have been truly disrupted like that, who’ve only been leaving their house for groceries or food and to come back or whatever. Literally everyone I know is an essential worker. No one at any point worked from home. It’s been plainly spelled out that I and everyone I love are completely disposable in such a blatant way.