For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the “objectification of women”, which i can totally understand because it’s a “dehumanizing” term that looks at people like objects, not as actual human beings.
But the same is happening with the concept of “workers”: If people are referred to as “workers”, that means that they are being reduced to their economic function; to their ability to produce.
That is a dehumanizing term. The view should be that people are humans first, and workers second. People deserve rights, and a good life, not because they’re workers, but because they’re humans. That is how people should be looked at.
Which is technically correct but falls way short of addressing the problem.
As all identity politics, it looks at individual discrimination instead of the broader system which fetishizes exploitation of everyone and everything.
Capitalism has to go. Socialism is the answer.