The Covid lockdown has demonstrated 3 things

[ItsjustMe]

[Thunderbeast]

1. It also has exposed a new reality about far too many Americans:

There is NO sacrifice too small (basic Covid protections) for selfish entitled citizens to reject...even if hundreds of thousands of lives are put at risk.

[madeup64]

2. Definitely

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!

All true!

[StClone]

4. Too many Americans believe a lot of untrue things-junk.

[Sherman A1]

5. Yup

Precisely

[nuxvomica]

6. Yes, yes, and hell, yes!

In Rutger Bregman's brilliant book, Utopia for Realists, he talks about "bullshit jobs", which are jobs held by well-educated people in comfortable environments that pay well and are totally unnecessary to the functioning of society, while the essential work is performed by under-educated, or less-strategically educated people who work in difficult and often hazardous conditions for little pay. I read the book last year and was amazed how quickly his thesis was illuminated by the pandemic.

[The Magistrate]

7. No. 3 In Particular, Sir

We would manage perfectly well without the people who think 'Atlas Shrugged' is about them. If the God of the Righteous swooped down and charred to cinders every banker and 'financial engineer' and chief executive officer on the planet, no one would notice once the smell had cleared. It would not perturb the daily lives of billions in any perceptible degree.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[DBoon]

9. About half of all jobs can be done from home

without some management busybody supervising your every move to make sure you are in fact working

[Skittles]

11. why are bosses even onsite?

I have never met my boss, she lives over a thousand miles away from me.

[crickets]

10. Yes. K&R for the post and the discussion.