The Work of Human Hands

  All over the world, workers had to go to work to make a living.

Unprecedented stay-at-home orders caused me to think of all those who lived and worked in the physical world and continue to work in real worlds, real environments, where people make possible the lives of those who were privileged to stay at home, moving digits.

People, who run and maintain these machines and repair them when they break down, work in the physical world.

These are working hands, hands of real people with husbands and wives, parents and children.

People had to work at power plants to supply electricity to homes.

The lives of people working with their hands had not changed that much during the shutdowns - except that wearing a face mask may be very hard while doing physically demanding work in a loud, fast-paced manufacturing plant or in a chicken factory or while crawling beneath an engine or bending over one.

We may not have remembered or seen these real people with real hands doing real work in the physical world.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-work-of-human-hands/