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How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)

How to Be a Better Human

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Domestic Workers Can Be Our Moral Compass

The amount of people who live with some sort of chronic condition is so much higher than I think our culture like popularly presents it. In the face of extreme immorality, domestic workers can be our moral compass. They know how your toddler likes to be held as they take their bottle before a nap. They are so proximate to our humanity. At the end of the day, these are people who are part of families, someone's mother, someone's grandmother, someone's best friend and someone's baby,. undeniably human, and therefore not disposable.

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