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Go listen to what old construction or steel mill workers will tell young kids about how their bodies are physically shredded to nothing. Entire joints literally
by s5300 5y ago
Go listen to what old construction or steel mill workers will tell young kids about how their bodies are physically shredded to nothing. Entire joints literally ground down & deteriorated to dust. There is zero recovery from this, not to say that there also aren’t cases where there’s zero recover from mental damages.
Are you anti-any of these professions? They for the most part definitely knew what they were getting into as well.
I did a short stint of continuous improvement engineering at a steel mill in Pittsburgh… it was an arguably decent place, but so many those labor workers gave zero fucks about the money they were making & would’ve left so long ago if they didn’t have family completely reliant on them.
- emptysongglass 5y agoI specifically called out the psychological harm that is a frequent companion of sex work. I have no doubt that manual labor, day in and day out, breaks down the body: I have my fair share of stories doing such tasks when I was younger. The mistake is in making like for like comparisons as you just did. Sex is not a simple commodity. We would do better to listen to the stories of the sex workers who have left the industry or who are offered therapy through orgs specifically created to help sex workers like Pineapple Support as part of workers' contracts with Streamate et al.
- Spooky23 5y agoThe shittyness of jobs are not mutually exclusive. I would not advise anyone to be a stripper or to stick with some building trades for a long time.
- robertlagrant 5y agoThere's no need for whataboutism. The issue raised is that this work is seen as empowering and liberating, and the message that it can take an enormous mental toll is not similarly publicised, or is dismissed as right wing moralising. No one's doing that to stories about steel mill workers.
- belorn 5y agoI suspect if one did look at the statistics, construction workers who are victim of human trafficking do not generally end up with wife's/husbands that write on HN. A social study about what happen to those people would likely be a quite depressing read.