The more I think about it the more I think @AlexandraErin is right
It's not that it's impossible to keep on feeding people and keep "the economy" going while everyone is out of work
It's that they're terrified of ever admitting that it IS possible
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Like most service industry jobs it's a bullshit job, it's makework Nobody needs the actual work to be done in order to live, it's a job that exists because they tell you you don't deserve to live unless you make someone richer than you happy enough to tip you
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The whole modern economy is constructed from bullshit jobs where the wealthy sit on their piles of money and tell you "If you make me happy enough you get rent and groceries for another month"
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And they trick people into thinking this is just how "the economy" works, that it's the same division of labor that ancient tribes used to cooperate to take down wooly mammoths or whatever It's nonsense
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The fact is very little would change if you went and got your own food from the kitchen like a big boy and we just took your money and gave it to the underclass of service workers for "doing nothing" The "value they created" for you was just you being petulant
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What they're terrified of is the government realizing this is life or death and forcing the coffers of the wealthy open to keep the population alive for three months *without* doing all the bullshit jobs and people realizing "Hey, this actually does work"
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"Why don't we do this all the time? Why don't we make it so everyone has a constant level of 'base pay' and tips really are just an extra reward for good service? Why don't we treat service work like what it is - doing you a *favor*, not performing your God ordained function"
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They'd really rather risk death than risk that change in attitude, to them their position in society as the generous dispensers of the right to survive in return for haircuts and shoeshines and immediately refilling the bread every time is their whole identity
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Like many other people, I've learnt that it's relatively simple, not too time consuming, cost-effective (and, why not throw in, psychologically beneficial in immeasurable ways) to bake a great loaf of bread.
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Isn't that better than "contributing to the economy" by buying well-advertised loaf of Wonder Bread (or some processed equivalent)?
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Unless you're disabled, lest we forget
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i don't think a lot of disabled people are protesting the quarantine, nor were eating every single meal in a restaurant because they couldn't live without a waiter.
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