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Imagine If We All Did Nothing
The Question
The next person you see ask them ‘Imagine if we all did nothing.’
I can guarantee their reply:
‘But who will clean the toilets, collect the rubbish, and deliver the mail?’
What they won’t say is:
‘But who will lead the country, represent us in court, or look after our investments?’
Faced with end-of-the world scenarios our default state is to worry about the mundane.
We saw this during Covid-19, people rushing out to buy essentials and praising frontline workers. They weren’t clapping for the politicians, the lawyers, and the bankers that’s for sure.
Almost overnight, the most hard-working and lowest paid members of society were deemed irreplaceable. Vital even.
Yet when the threat of Covid-19 diminished, did the nurses get a whopping pay rise. Or the Amazon guys collect a bonus for keeping everyone in iPads during lockdown.
Of course not.
The Job
From the ages of 16 to 18, I did a garbage round every summer. It was dirty and backbreaking. But I got a buzz from the physicality of it, and enjoyed collapsing into bed in the evening.
