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We tell our stories differently, don’t we, you and I?

me, at work, to my eighteen year old co-worker: see and this is why people unionize! it's not because the people at corporate are bad guys, it's not even that they aren't trying to help, it's just that they're not here with us, doing the work. and there's things you can't understand unless you're here with us. so they're making decisions about how things are gonna work for us without knowing everything they need to. and they can't know what they need to, without being us. so what a union says is, we're the ones who should be making the decisions that affect us.

what I genuinely CANNOT comprehend is how adults find it remotely acceptable to use the "I'm the earning member" / "I pay the rent" / "this is my house" argument towards children and actively encourage it but when used towards a non earning spouse it's acknowledged as being abusive? So you admit that you don't see your children as autonomous individuals with basic human rights?

And many who didn't die now have to live with permanent disability that prevents them from holding any kind of job (especially because employers are so opposed to making the work accessible).

They died when you told them they were "essential" and couldn't not work. They died when you refused them paid sick leave during a pandemic. They died because they have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, multiplying their chance of exposure. They died because you refused to do even the most basic things like wear a mask, not go out, and get vaccinated.

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“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good moments, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.”