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Labor Day
Labor Day in the US is an extremely hypocritical holiday.
What I find to be the absolute greatest hypocrisy are Labor day speeches by politicians delivered on Labor Day, itself. When these politicians deliver a speech on Labor Day, one has to pay attention to the fact that they are usually using a podium, a sound system, etc which requires workers, laborers, to set up the equipment, take down the equipment, provide security, clean the area for the speech before and after.
Sometimes there is food involved. That means laborers have to cook the food, serve the food and, again, clean up afterward.
Meanwhile, the speech is largely attended by wealthy people, usually major donors. They are the ones being served, doing absolutely no work. These functions generally double as fundraising efforts to ask for money from the ones being served.
Most or all of the workers have no choice in whether they are going to work for this function. They may make additional pay for working on that particular day but in general, most are at the lower end of the pay scale. They will be expected to smile and express how happy and impressed they are because of the pedantic words being delivered. While they are working. Egged on for a response by those they are serving and cleaning up…
