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nowaypablo · 3632 days ago · link · · parent · post: I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?
Frankly yes, the responsibilities of today far outnumber those of centuries past. The physical suffering and hardship are obviously incomparable, but that doesnt mean she can't feel just as helpless. The workers who slept in mountains of waste in the Industrial Revolution had reason to be furious, a collective desire to fight back and have modicum of security in a circumstance where their lives and health were at direct physical risk. There is no collective tension to revolt building up in Brooklyn fueled by plague and rotting corpses in the streets. This is a muffled, silent torture where a bar of demand is set but a mere fraction of the resources necessary to reach that standard is available.