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The moral dangers of dirty work

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

What Is Dirty Work?

Book is about white colla workers who do what we might regard to be dirty work, just in a different sense. Some of the highest paying, most powerful jobs in american life are deeply unethical and extremely profitable. But i'm interested in work that feels dirtying and stigmatizing and sullying and demeaning for the people who do it. And if we think about bankers, even after the great financial melt down in two thousand eight, that causes so much suffering, right? So many people lose their livelihoods. And so much pain in so many communities. When obama dares to criticise, you know, wall street, there is immediate pushback. There'

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