'Tis the season of gift giving – including Time magazine handing out its somewhat pompous “Person of the Year” award.
My beef with this gift is that it perpetuates the fallacy that social progress comes from some wondrous individual. It diminishes the more-inspiring fact that progress (and even the “greatness” of any one person) comes from the extended family – the group, the movement, the many – who sustain the alleged Person of the Year. It’s in that democratic spirit, then, that I suggest 2022 as THE YEAR OF THE WORKERS.
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