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Worked to death


I was listening to The Rest is Politics podcast and I found myself switching it off in annoyance and saying to myself thats quite enough of you two thank you!

My head went straight to the hunger games and the commentators of the game giving us a low down, normalising the grotesque nature of it all. That is what I think of the more recent commentary from Rory and Alastair. They are peddling the program to us and normalising something that should absolutely be resisted.

Specifically this time, they were talking about the strikes in France and the change in retirement age. Their focus was on cost and economy. They couldn’t see why the French were resisting the age increase. They were pushing the narrative that this change was necessary to reduce cost. No mention of the humans this would impact, the different types of work or labour people do or whether their bodies could reasonably afford to be pushed to work later and later in life all so the government could find some monetary savings because they refuse to increase taxes on the richest. 

9 till life for the lowest earners.

No mention of the cost of endless growth on the planet either and whether that can afford endless increases in GDP.

So yes, I found myself being a bit irate by them both of them normalising working people to death without considering the value of their last years versus breaking their body for a pension they stopped paying into years ago, because they’d already reached peak payments, forcing them to work for the sake of the government purse even if it shaves off years off their end of life to do so not to mention quality of life.

Treating humans like a cog in the capitalist machine and nothing more. I thought Alastair and Rory were more progressive, more enlightened, evidently not.

Human bodies have limitations and not everyone’s work is equal on the body. You can’t expect a person in construction to still be able to do in their 60’s what they did in their 20’s. It’s unreasonable and frankly dangerous.

I have numerous ideas for solutions that could resolve many of these issues but first we must stop only seeing value in the hours people put in and start seeing the value, and quality in outcomes.

Number of hours you put in doesn’t equal quality of work. Less really is more.

The more I listen to The Rest is Politics the more I hear the same old unimaginative rhetoric. They’re not offering anything new. They lack the vision beyond their party walls and with each episode it’s more formula than insight.

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