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    THE DIGNITY OF WORK

    Jan 01, 2023 2 minutes

    Democracy is a word on a lot of lips lately, but I’m not sure what it means: The right to vote?

    Freedom of speech? All of it together forms this numinous enterprise of democracy that we can’t see or touch. But we can see and know workers, who to me

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