Thursday Essay

I get the newsletter from journalist Anne Helen Petersen and this week’s was so good, it’s hard not to excerpt all of it. I’ll let you get the gist from the paragraph below:

Are you willing to embrace that truly slight inconvenience—and maybe pay a few dollars more—so that a person’s job is significantly less shitty? Think about in practice: are you willing to wait five more minutes for an Uber so that, when you get in, you know that your drive has health insurance and is making a living wage? […] Are you willing to have slightly less so that others can have significantly more? Or, as I like to think about it, do you actually care about other people?

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