- “Essential” does not mean “well-paid.” Frequently it means just the opposite.
- Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close human contact and breathing the same air – changing bedpans, performing Hamilton, the Eucharist.
- The creating of art (and the funding of art by its consumers) turns out to be surprisingly central to life.
- People actually do want to work – sometimes just to feed their families, and sometimes also for the joy of the work itself.
- It’s easier* to just give people money and trust them to do the right thing with it than we thought it was. *(Conceptually, that is. The Treasury seems to have a lot of difficulty actually getting it where it’s going.)
- We have forgotten how to do a lot of things for ourselves.
- “Knowledge work” depends on a whole lot of not-knowledge-work happening around it.
- Pretty much everything about our previous workplaces was unsustainable.
- Pretty much everything about the COVID workplace is unsustainable too, which means we’ve set a pretty puzzle for ourselves.
- This must not actually be the disaster movie apocalypse, because people are still collecting the weekly garbage (AND I BLESS THEM FOR IT.)
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