Workers Are Waking Up To The Value Of Their Time

“No one wants to work anymore” is a myth. We’re going to bust it.

The entire world slipped into a paralyzing grip of uncertainty when a previously undiscovered and highly contagious virus found its way to the human species. We did not know what it meant for our survival. We didn’t know what precautions to take to protect ourselves and our loved ones. As the statistics ticked up from 2 infections, to 10, to 100 and 3 deaths.. to 6 million infections and 600,000 dead in America alone, the coronavirus flung modern society into a tailspin. Businesses closed. Supply lines were interrupted. Hospitals buckled beneath the demand for care. Children went to school on the internet.

The world as we knew it has changed forever.

Of course, something so powerful as to shift the trajectory of our day-to-day lives would naturally be leveraged by elitists in a bid for control. Politicians would use it as a tool of division and urge their eager followers to rebuke safeguarding policies as encroaching on their freedoms. The religious would use it as a threat to those whose implied morality had allegedly collapsed. Their typical “Come to Jesus” message became “Run to Jesus or die.”

Both genuine fear and manufactured outrage became a bargaining chip used against the people on the bottom wrung of society’s ladder; The working class, the poor, even those mired in their prejudices and needing to blame someone for the misfortunes they endured were used as pawns in a game of political “Hot Potato.” Powerful figures with bylines and air time turned landlords against tenants, employers against employees, the masked against the anti-masked and exacerbated pre-existing tensions between the economic classes, races and politically motivated audiences they held captive as we waited for meaningful guidance or answers to salve our concerns. The chaos that ensued would benefit the wealthy, most who tripled their worth as many average people couldn’t even go to work.

In spite of an eviction moratorium that banned Landlords from evicting tenants who could not pay rent, the backlog owed made it impossible to catch up. When the moratorium expired millions of families were evicted from their apartments. Their homes or cars were repossessed. 42% of Americans went into credit card…