The Macabre Librarian
@macabrelibrarian.bsky.social
Library worker by day, bookseller by night🕯️💀📖The Quad Cities' original Blind Date with a Book
THIS. Our job is a job. Please don't fetishize other people's labor when you have no idea what it actually takes to do the work.
Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.
The Strand owner Nancy Bass-Wyden is reportedly worth more than $50 million and received $2.7 million in COVID loans. The Strand union said they are asking for $.50 raises.
February 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
THIS. Our job is a job. Please don't fetishize other people's labor when you have no idea what it actually takes to do the work.