unnatural sentiments.
What is it with the working class that makes them consider everyone that isn’t working or able to work, fit to die? there’s a lot to be said about people who leech off of the welfare system. but dying is not a sentiment we should encourage in society.
Yesterday my friend Maria was over for a cup o’ joe and we talked for near to an hour about how people treat her differently because she’s out of work due to physical ailments. she has to withstand criticism of being an unfit mother, how she shouldnt be able to take her own kid to the kindergarden because that’d mean she’s really able to work.
Maria has been working for as long as i’ve been. which is since our early teens, she’s never been one to complain, she doesnt really complain about her illnesses. what she often does complain about is how people treat her. and she isn’t one to talk openly about the illnesses.
She proceeds to tell me about how the Swedish office for public health is questioning her ability to be on sick leave and care for her son. why you ask? they consider walking her son to the daycare center makes her fit to work. she can barely lift a pan without sharp lances of pain striking her every nerve in her arm.
reumatism isnt fun. and being in her mid twenties and having it. makes it less fun. it does however not. make her a) and unfit mother or b) fit to work.
and from reading the newspaper editorials of late I can’t quite understand the darwinian ideology taking place inside a socialistic state. we thrive because we help eachother. we stop doing that and the rest of society suffers.
afterword. she wants to work, but has been unable to find a job that respects her illness. so anyone looking for a slow typist or a receptionist. email me. i’ll forward it to her.
Society and Cultural differences does not and should never exclude Civility.
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