somewhere along the line we morphed "bad working environment" and "hard working environment" together and transferred the sins of the former to the latter.

It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.

Jeff’s concern is whether we’ll be able to help workers transition to new jobs. A big question is, who’s responsible to re-train displaced workers?