Relevant Roles | Every Hand On Deck

Water. Food. Sanitation. Housing. Healthcare. Laws. Equity.

Untold numbers of various people (us) and layers upon layers of processes are required to provide each and every single one of us with the things we need to survive. Though tech and automation have reduced our presence, humans are somewhere at the helm.

A glass of water.

A morsel of bread.

A car or house or hut or shed.

Healthcare.

Rights Protected.

Unhindered Access to all the above.

Obtaining any of that stuff requires the hands of many humans. Examples of this are countless. But since we cannot live without water, lets glance at it for a moment.

None of us wants a dry faucet. Think of all the large groups of people, dirt-digging, creation and use of various materials, pipe-laying, and processes that are required to bring water into our lives. And, think of all the teams of people required to support leveraging all of those people, materials, and processes. When it comes to providing water or any type of water services, any job involved is important.

As it is for water -so it is for food, housing, healthcare, human rights protection, ensuring equity, and everything else we need. Any role anybody has in any of that stuff is important because [that role] is necessary to achieve an end goal.

From people who work in food processing plants and mop supermarket floors to those who manage them or those who own the company, every job with a hand in providing products which feed us and provide resources to service our needs -is important.

• From people who construct underground sanitation, to folks in that office.
• From people who build homes and huts, to folks working in shipping warehouses.
• From people who are doctors, to folks working in bed pan manufacturing facilities.
• From people who implement the rule of law, to those involved with it in any way. 
• From people who guard democracy, to those with jobs in service to it in any way.

Human culture has a way of idealizing and idolizing job roles and positions. While the reason for this speaks for itself, it is wise to be in the habit of giving honor where it is due in other jobs roles too.

Honor is due to every hand on deck regarding any role, and, in any capacity where the outcome provides products and services required to engage and survive the human life.

No matter the type of work we do or the title of it, at the end of the day we exist as humans...for humans. We are humans working jobs of every sort to provide for ourselves and our family. Collectively we all contribute to availing products and services to humanity by exchanging our time, for pay.

If ever in doubt about the relevance of a less sought after role within the workforce, consider what would happen if a doctor or surgeon had no access to lighting. Absolutely give accolades to medical staff in every level of the healthcare industry. However let us not hold back the kudos to any person who has anything whatsoever to do with the creation of the light bulb system, its arrival in the socket, and making the light switch come on. And those are merely three of the numerous high-points around how the luxury of lighting occurs. EVERY person involved with [that] process is super significant. This means people who clean bathrooms in the light-bulb-making-factories of our world, the people handling the electrical wiring, the folks having anything to do with any apparatus or place where light bulbs of any sort are screwed into, and EVERY person involved with hiring, managing, and paying those folks and all the other layers of people in between all of those people and processes. EVERY thing and EVERY role required to ensure lighting for the doctor and surgeon -is extra mandatory.  What can doctors and surgeons do without lights?

Our world is certain to be a much better place when we rise up more and more, on behalf of each other. Human society is certain to improve when we give pats on the back to our human counter-parts for whatever job they do because, more likely than not, it involves something around providing some type of product or service to your house or to mine or to your body or to my mine.

A shift in our primary focus will do us well. A focused respect for every job role within human society via demonstrations of appreciation for every hand on deck, is of monumental importance.  Marked benefits will unfold throughout humanity when we decrease attention on thinking of people as "less than" because, well, they “only” do so and so.

It takes a village. The humans-for-humans-village, so to say. And when we take the agency we are supposed to and represent humanity according to how it was designed to be, happier days are guaranteed for the collective.

To be sure, artificial intelligence and the robot community are...what they are. For some reason the saying, somebody is getting too big for their britches comes to mind.

Technology has some pretty big britches it very probably should not be wearing, yet its presence and use cannot be avoided. Still, we would do well to prefer humans for humans.

We would do well to up our game when it comes to celebrating and appreciating the relevance of everyone's role and every single hand on deck. It will improve how we feel about each other and thus how we handle each other and thereby render marked decreases in mean behavior, rewarding us with increased rendezvous with courtesy and kindness.

I dare us to truly honor and respect everybody's job no matter what they do.

Nah. Scratch that. We should not have to be dared into it.

Let' s just go ahead and express our agency, and do it.

Let's just go ahead and own our power...to empower other humans.

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Sylvia R. Draper | Thought Leader | World-View Citizen | Humanity Advocate

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