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We Don’t Have To Choose Between Economic Prosperity And Life Itself
A sustainable world requires a lot of jobs, hearts and minds
How we get things done
With polarization taking front and center stage, it is easy to understand why people choose sides. Conflict and drama sell stories, but they seldom tell the full human story of how we get things done.
Today, the COVID-19 pandemic does not in and of itself demand that we choose between public safety and good jobs.
Re-opening the economy is not as important as human life. However, finding ways to slowly, cautiously, and by baby steps re-open toward a new, sustainable, economy is going to take ingenuity, grit, determination, courage, and many, many, human hands working with many, many human minds.
Those workers will need other workers to see that job sites are safe.
A false choice
Currently many pundits are warning that freedom is just as important as life. I think this is a false dichotomy.
We tend, as human beings, to automatically make things binary. Yet, a choice between prosperity and life itself is a stark choice that is not as black and white and the naysayers would have you believe.