Millions of people are unable to work because of a disability, but [that has as much to do with the changing nature of work as with the disabilities themselves](https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/490\/transcript):<\/p>\n
> When I said things like, what about a job where you don’t have to lift people, or a job where you don’t have to use your shoulder or where you don’t have to stand all night long, or just simply, have you thought about other jobs that you could do, people gave me such bewildered looks. It was as if I was asking well, how come you didn’t consider becoming an astronaut…<\/p>\n
> Being poorly educated in a rotten place, that in and of itself has become a disability. This is a new reality. This gap between workers who are fit for the US economy and millions of workers who are increasingly not. And it’s a change that’s spreading to towns and cities that have thrived in the American economy.<\/p>\n
It’s sadly ironic that while tech workers are proud about [the health benefits of their new standing desks](http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/thomas-b-trafecanty\/the-benefits-and-consider_b_9996782.html), people with real health issues can’t get jobs that allow them to sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Millions of people are unable to work because of a disability, but [that has as much to do with the changing nature of work as with the disabilities themselves](https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/490\/transcript): > When I said things like, what about a job where you don’t have to lift people, or a job where you don’t have to use…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,383],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-2","category-work","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1s0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}