The ‘Laptop Class’ Fetish For Manual Labor Is An Attempt To Justify Privilege
The ‘laptop class’ maintains a mental barricade separating them from those responsible for the actual infrastructure of our world.
As a psychiatrist, you can often step out of the bubble you find yourself in. I worked for many years in rural areas and spent a significant number of hours discussing the emotional lives of male and female blue-collar workers. That was when I learned most of our patients don’t have psychological problems — they have life problems. And how they felt abo…
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