I think the worst part is that once this is over, it’ll be swept under the rug. All this bullshit will be memory holed just like the war on terror.
I think about this every fucking day.
we are proud of how we all came together and united in such challenges
The collective trauma that workers in this country have been forced to endure. I just...can't.
That's just crushing and terrible. A woman that age shouldn't have to work at all, let alone during a pandemic with an at-risk husband at home, not that she wasn't completely at-risk herself at that age. I just hope she can get to a point where she realizes it isn't her fault.
The most crushing part is that her ritual honoring her husband is still and after-hours routine.....fucking end it
I once heard someone say "we live in a trauma based society" and I believe that more and more every day. It's like everything in this disgusting, wretched system is designed to traumatize and break people. Why? So a small number of people can lord over us and dictate where resources are allocated? It's sickening.
The ruling class are like hungry ghosts. They constantly crave for more; more blood; more power; more wealth; more status, but they're never satisfied. It's never enough for them. Unfortunately it's people like this (and countless others no one ever hears about) that pay the price for their greed.
This system must be destroyed.
God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!
jesus made me tear up a bit
:desolate: :doomjak: we're living in a hellworld
My S/O is horrified for a very similar reason. She works in healthcare and I have been at home since March because I’m immunocompromised. I haven’t seen friends, family, anybody but her for almost a year now and neither can she. I can’t risk it and she feels like she can’t either.
I’ve been scraping by paying bills working from home, but what happens when that isn’t an option for me? Am I going to leave a family behind because I had to go make a profit for someone who has the privilege of staying home as long as it is necessary? Do I have to go lay down my life to support my family? What’s the endgame for people like me and Paul? How long do I have left?
I wonder how much longer this woman is going to have to stay working at this store in order to keep supporting herself? If she’s 67 and still working retail will she ever get to really retire?
Cruel, broken society.
TBH she is probably doing better than most people. They are unionized and have a decent retirement plan for long-term employees.
Somehow finding out his nickname makes the loss more acute and personal to me. To paraphrase Network: He was a human being, goddamnit, and his life had value!
