In an “as is” condo you take the appliances, and
there’s always a chance of going through replacing one (even if you buy the
warranty). There are some issues with
the refrigerator (maybe just the light after all), so I went to a Home Depot
today to look at what was there that fits into a smaller space. Well, actually there are smaller “retro” ones
(like in a motel room).
The sales person was in a long conservation about
paperwork with a customer or other worker, but finally I got her attention.
I asked her about delivery, and I got a lecture about
“this virus” and workers. There were
plenty of items in the store, but don’t count on being able to get one in
stock. Then she went of on a spiel about
working people and “this virus”, like she resented someone having the money to
replace an appliance (a rather common event sometime in one’s life) when
necessary.
She did not belong to a minority group. But I’m rather shocked to go into a major
chain store and get a lecture on commie worker comradeship, like ordering
something is a sign of anti-Maoist privilege.
The extent to which ideology has affected a lot of
working people is shocking.
Yet, there is the issue of empathy, as Tomas Puerto
points out in this Tweet sequence.
By the way, here’s a scary article about lung damage
in asymptomatic people in China shared by Tomas Pueyo, but it seems
self-contradictory when reading it.
Now I will note the fairness aspect of this. People
who do have money and work-from-home jobs may prosper by others lower in the
economic scale (sometimes because of race) taking risks – like getting drafted
and getting infantry in Vietnam – for them.
Is that sustainable?
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