history is not a tale of great men and fantastic ideas, it is the mountain of work of many countless millions of people, countless billions of hours worked in poverty. A civilization is a pyramid laid brick by brick through time and work by the masses.
'scientific advancement was only possible when the lives and work of those scientists and philosophers were themselves sustained by the toilers before them.'
honestly the previous bit makes it even more blatant but i can't be bothered to go back and grab a screen of that so you'll just have to play the game yourself
“Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and Labor Day have one troubling fact in common: They are stark evidence that the U.S. government has long held a vested interest in quashing dissent and cracking down on radical political organizers; in this case, the anarchist, communist, socialist, and trade unionist workers who were behind some of the greatest working class struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/history-labor-day-us-government/amp
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own