JTarrou
12hr ago
There's a lot of relatively hard labor being done by relatively dumb people that underpins everything we do in this society. When your power goes out, they don't send Harvard to fix the lines. Yale is not installing conduit. Brown is not running high-speed fiber down a dirt road. Any day you feel like you can get by without the dummies, you just disconnect every electrical and mechanical object you own, throw out your food and try to live on Hegel. What you remember, anyhoo. Printers are retards.
Before the electrician gets to work, nine other guys have been there to locate the utilities, remove fallen trees, excavate the lines etc. I'm not even talking tradesmen. People seem to have little idea how much unskilled labor goes into all this shit. Cleaners, drivers, warehouse workers. People working odd hours and bad conditions to make sure everything runs right 9-5 for everyone else.
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