Watching the way that labor affects people is so sad. As a kid my mother use to come home from 12 hour night shifts and I could see the exhaustion all over her face. My mother was a labor and delivery nurse at John Hopkins. In the way she spoke, the way she walked, the way she cooked, and approached life as a whole she just seemed like she was so tired. She was so tired all the time it felt. You would think she liked to sleep more than she loved to spend time with me.
But as I am older and now working my own job, I completely understand why she felt the way she felt all the time. The most I work in a week is between 20-25 hours and it my feet will continuously ache on in agony. At the end of each shift I want nothing more than to lay in my bed and recuperate from simply speaking to people all day. Labor is hard, and it all comes down to the systemic class system that is set up. The people who do the least labor get the most money and it is just simply unfair and inhumane. So many current business owners have the ideology that “money comes before the mental health of employees” and it is heartbreaking because of how much that is reflected in todays society.
Unruly Bodies 
I never appreciated how hard my parents worked when I was a child. They got home from their jobs and cooked us dinner, every night. They kept our house clean, kept me and my 2 brothers clean and healthy, and dealt with all of our shit. I really do not know how they kept it all together. I come home from my second shift of the week and just melt into the couch. I couldn’t imagine having to come home and care for a family and worry about bills.
I’m going to go tell my parents I love them, brb.
I can’t emphasize enough how much I relate and support the quote “the people that do the least labor get the most money and it is simply just unfair and inhumane.” I feel as though this dialogue continues in my mind every day, but mostly when I have conversations about sports and esports. Why does a pro football player that is operating off of physical activity and spectacle (as football is a U.S. thing) getting paid more than the doctors, teachers, and engineers of the world? Why do child TikTok and YouTube stars have enough money to be able to retire at the age of 16? Our economy is wildly overinflated to support the wrong structures and people because of commodity and capitalism, whereas a well-off biologist or chemist may have come up with solutions for chronic illnesses and diseases by now with the right monetary support. It’s infuriating, and all that citizens can do is hope these highly paid spectacles of people donate portions of their pay to charities and businesses for the advancement of our climate and culture.