The Disappearing Art of Maintanence / Alex Vuocolo
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Take a turn. |
| 0:15.0 | attack. |
| 0:16.0 | take attack. Thank you. This is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | Yes. |
| 0:38.0 | is hell. |
| 0:39.0 | Live from Lake Capitalism where we know the price of everything but the value of nothing. |
| 0:49.0 | This is hell, and something we seemingly give little to no value to is labor as in people who make |
| 0:56.5 | and fix things everyone from engineers to repairmen janitors to sanitation workers |
| 1:01.3 | whether they're plumbers or road construction, for whatever reason. |
| 1:06.7 | These are not seen as skills to be proud of or noble livelihoods in any way, despite how much |
| 1:12.0 | we depend on all of them to maintain our world and keep it functioning. |
| 1:16.0 | Of course, considering climate change, there are parts of the world that should not be sustained |
| 1:21.0 | as they are major contributors to global warming warming as well as poor air, water, and |
| 1:25.2 | soil quality. |
| 1:26.7 | But if we are going to move to a cleaner, greener world, we will need it to work for us. |
| 1:32.0 | And the best way to figure that out is talk to the actual workers |
| 1:35.6 | who do make our world work. |
| 1:38.1 | What they will likely tell you is the world they can conceive, making and maintaining, and how both are likely |
| 1:44.7 | counter to the demands of capitalism. |
| 1:47.9 | That our current world of environmental damage and waste is incentivized by the market while |
| 1:52.2 | an industry and society based on |
| 1:54.0 | regeneration and restoration is far better for all of us. |
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