"We condition people to tolerate evil for convenience when they could have convenience _without_ evil."
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"We condition people to tolerate evil for convenience when they could have convenience _without_ evil."
I think this is what always made me uncomfortable about the Mike Rowe "Dirty Jobs" mentality. It's pro-worker at first glance, celebrating the people who "make civilized life possible for the rest of us." And pragmatically speaking, it is true that dirty jobs are necessary. But many of the jobs that he champions simply _should not exist_ in the form that they do.
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It's one thing to celebrate labor and to commend hard-working people for doing thankless, dangerous, and demeaning work. No one should have to be ashamed of what they do for a living. But it's another thing to witness the reality of a dangerous and demeaning industry and then, without the imagination of labor reform, campaign for the preservation and expansion of these jobs.
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