Domestic Workers Can Be Our Moral Compass

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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.

Activist, and MacArthur Genius, Ai-jen Poo believes that caring for others is one of the fundamental acts that make us human. But from nannies to elder-care workers, house cleaners to living assistants, single parents and beyond, globally, caretakers do not earn fair wages or recognition for their essential, life-giving labor. The President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen explains how society undervalues domestic work, and provides a framework on how we can start a conversation about the future of care for our loved ones – and ourselves. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts