Tile Setting Hurts like hell

[PDJane]

26. I'm tired of people right now, and this thread is just one more reason why.

The jobs that this world needs are vicious and abusive, and the people who want to make one worse than the other or less than the other give me hives. I understand about jobs that wear the heart and the soul and the body. My mother worked in textiles from the age of 14 to the age of 75. Her hands do not work; her fingers are deformed, she can't grasp things, and just after christmas, she was trying to make tea....and spilled 1.7 liters of boiling water on her left hand because she couldn't hold the kettle. Between the job and my definitely abusive father, she has no confidence and is constantly furious at the world. I'm her caretaker, and we have very different personalities, but I cope. (by the way, at 86, she was appalled at the the overt racism of the last presidential election, and is furious that women are still blamed for rape.)

My father worked in various trades, and ended up a specialist in heating and cooling. He worked long and heavy hours, lifted and toted and carried and had apprentices. One of my brothers worked with him for a couple of summers, and when told by my father's boss that he was really good, and would he come work with them, was shocked and offended when my brother told him that he would not work at a laborers job, he was going back to school. For his intransigence, my brother had to pay for his own schooling. My father is dead now; I am convinced that the reason that his then partner didn't have a funeral for him was the fear of the traffic jams that all those people coming to make sure that he was dead would surely have caused.

Porn and prostitution leaves women battered, injured, and all too often dead. It doesn't pay enough for the damage done, not for the women or for the men, and the emotional damage it does is beyond fixing. Restaurant workers are abused, and the tips that are considered part of their pay are considered something to be forgotten by too many people. The hours are long, their wages and tips withheld, and the standing on their feet and trying to be pleasant to everyone is hard on their psyches.

Pay has gone down or remained stagnant for almost everyone, and even in Canada treatment for the poor is getting harder to find. Not that the medicine isn't there, but that a primary caregiver is getting harder and harder to find....if you are poor.

The fact is that work is not valued, thought is not valued, and the rich have decided that the common good isn't enough reason to give up one damn penny of their stolen gains...and make no mistake, they are stolen from thee and me. There is only so much money, and those who hoard their cash are a larger burden on the system than those who need to be taken care of. If work were valued, this stuff wouldn't happen.