#essential labor

"unskilled labor is called that because you don't need any skills to do it" my brother in christ, those "unskilled workers" are the ones growing your food and making sure it's safe to eat. They're the ones who built your home, who built the office you work in, etc. they're the ones who have to learn how to drive specially made trucks for their job so they can pick up YOUR trash

Praise for SECOND LIFE “Only Amanda Hess could step through the blue light looking glass of our phones and explore her specific—and our collective—anxiety, dissociation, data points, targeted ads, and apps; she emerges a more sensate, embodied, and sharper critic. The honesty of Second Life took my breath away.” —Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother