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- Jul 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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So these two classes, rising professionals and sinking workers, which a couple of generations ago were close in income and not so far apart in mores, no longer believe they belong to the same country. But they can’t escape each other, and their coexistence breeds condescension, resentment, and shame.
This rings true to me. How can we reverse this tide?
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theamericanscholar.org theamericanscholar.org
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If we believe everyday work to be mindless, then that will affect the work we create in the future.
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Joe learned the most efficient way to use his body by acquiring a set of routines that were quick and preserved energy. Otherwise he would never have survived on the line.
Sometime in the past six months I ran across a description of how migrant workers do this sort of activity in farming contexts. That article also pointed out the fact that the average person couldn't do this sort of work and that there was extreme value in it.
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