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Written by Benjohn on 2024-11-22 at 11:34

My best friend is an interpreter. Daily, she interprets for several new people who's health has been completely destroyed by hard physical work in the UK, just like Karolina here – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/britain-working-class-pain-mental-health

Warehouse work, freezer work, delivery work, packing work. Almost always they have such agonising back or leg pain that they are bed ridden and just trying to get the support they are entitled to now that their ruined bodies can no longer toil.

You can very easily see a moral angle to this. But if you don't, if you're simply a hard nosed zero sum bastard about it, this is still a bewilderingly absurd strategy.

We're smashing people's able bodies to make greater profits for capitalists, and then the state supports the wrecked humanity with a thin gruel of NHS pain killers, 6 week cognitive behavioural training programs (from private suppliers) and a pitiful subsistence income of welfare payments.

This is very much modern Britain.

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Written by William Canna-bass on 2024-11-22 at 13:54

@benjohn This is also the case in the USA

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