• Flying Squid
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    82 months ago

    Ah yes, the “people don’t get paid enough and then die” memorial.

      • Flying Squid
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        32 months ago

        Absolutely. What we didn’t need to do was pay those people shit wages while they got harassed by people angry about having to wear a mask. But it’s okay, because signs were put up in front of supermarkets and hospitals calling them heroes and now there will be a memorial to them shaped like the thing that killed them since they were killed doing a necessary job that paid them fuck all.

        • @SamboT@lemmy.world
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          12 months ago

          Yeah. We cant know who was trying to use the hero label to manipulate workers into showing up and who meant it. I like to believe the praise was largely genuine. I think people actively working in risk of covid should have received more government checks rather than all businesses adopting indefinite hazard pay, if thats what you were getting at.

          I do think the artist got caught up with the most visually interesting sculpture rather than a sculpture that conveys honor of the memory of those who died.