The reason so many people are so furious with Owen on this issue is because they’re so used to casting themselves as benevolent, but the benevolent thing to do here - pay your cleaner but not break quarantine - would mean paying someone not to work.
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You could clean your own home in the time you’ve saved commuting. Lots of us helped with housework as kids. They just don’t want to pay someone they see as beneath them not to work. It’s why there’s so little fury at how low benefits are, for both the unemployed & disabled.
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The issue isn’t whether it’s ok to have a cleaner - it’s whether you should be expecting your cleaner to risk their safety and that of their family. If they said they wouldn’t feel safe, would you accept that and pay them regardless?
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And there’s the power differential: the government advise workers to “discuss their concerns with their employer”, so you’re essentially left to the wolves in a precarious un-unionised work situation. It’s a class issue, as well as one of basic human decency.
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If you don’t want to admit you’re an employer and are making decisions that affect safety and mortality, it’s easier to write dogwhistle homophobic articles about arguments
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The people I know who can’t work from home aren’t being afforded any clemency from employers, can’t afford to miss a day’s pay, so they’re going to work despite severe asthma, or when they’re sick, as cleaners and in care homes, & this has been the case since before lockdown.
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Stunning contribution.
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