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clevermanka) wrote2009-07-28 10:09 am
clevermanka) wrote2009-07-28 10:09 am
Labor
I opened up my e-mail this morning and there was a message from my credit card, asking me to Please Use My Card! Yeah, no kidding. Bank of America must have noticed my negative transactions for the month. Yes, negative--I got two refunds when I stopped using the card. Oh, irony! But anyway, take that, evil bastard blood suckers. How's it feel not to be needed? Assholes.
I'm looking for a new PCP. Anyone got recommendations for a local general practitioner? I'm happy with the care provided by my current provider, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mckitterick and I found out yesterday that the FirstMed office doesn't process insurance claims for accidents. If I'm ever in a car accident and I need to go to the doctor, the last thing I want to worry about is processing my own accident claims against health insurance. I love you, Dr. Burt, but fuck that. So if you've got suggestions about a good PCP in Lawrence, lay 'em on me.
Thank you toslinka for a clip that she posted about the devaluation of work. It addresses a topic that was briefly and vaguely mentioned in some comments to my post yesterday. And mckitterick and I were talking on Sunday evening about a similar topic: the fact that our culture thinks "the working class" are stupid. Not just lacking a liberal arts college education, but stupid--unable to learn. I hadn't realized that many people (especially those who are high up the white collar food chain) think manual laborers are stupid. Do I think they might be uneducated about some things? Yes. Willfully ignorant? Perhaps*. But stupid? No, not stupid. Stupid people shouldn't be trusted to fix a gas leak. Or repair your car. Much less build your car. Once again, I realized (as does the speaker in the clip) that my perception of the world is often way wrong.
The clip is about work and the value (or lack of value) that our society puts on skilled labor. It's twenty minutes long, but definitely worth watching.
* and that's not limited to the working class folks by a long shot.
I'm looking for a new PCP. Anyone got recommendations for a local general practitioner? I'm happy with the care provided by my current provider, but
mckitterick and I found out yesterday that the FirstMed office doesn't process insurance claims for accidents. If I'm ever in a car accident and I need to go to the doctor, the last thing I want to worry about is processing my own accident claims against health insurance. I love you, Dr. Burt, but fuck that. So if you've got suggestions about a good PCP in Lawrence, lay 'em on me. Thank you to
slinka for a clip that she posted about the devaluation of work. It addresses a topic that was briefly and vaguely mentioned in some comments to my post yesterday. And mckitterick and I were talking on Sunday evening about a similar topic: the fact that our culture thinks "the working class" are stupid. Not just lacking a liberal arts college education, but stupid--unable to learn. I hadn't realized that many people (especially those who are high up the white collar food chain) think manual laborers are stupid. Do I think they might be uneducated about some things? Yes. Willfully ignorant? Perhaps*. But stupid? No, not stupid. Stupid people shouldn't be trusted to fix a gas leak. Or repair your car. Much less build your car. Once again, I realized (as does the speaker in the clip) that my perception of the world is often way wrong. The clip is about work and the value (or lack of value) that our society puts on skilled labor. It's twenty minutes long, but definitely worth watching.
* and that's not limited to the working class folks by a long shot.