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Man-Employment

Man-employment On the way to the bank this morning four workers were shuffling pebbles into big buckets carrying the load down some steps coming up with empty buckets, filling them up again. They had sweat on their brows; one hoped they made enough money for the daily bread. I may have worked long hours in my life, but not like this, lifting and carrying heavy objects, and I take it they were low paid It seems to me people who perform physical work is low paid and insecure work the first to be laid off and end up sleeping in the street, They are the people we despise But without them, the world would come to a standstill yet we pay them a few miserable coins left in our pockets when we change our trousers.

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Book: Shattered Sighs