Nothing wrong with "ordinary", it is not an insult. The insult is that "ordinary" should be used with contempt and be associated as lazy.
I am a worker and a carer of of someone with a serious mental disability. It is impossible to care and have a well paid part time job. Any job you have is likely to be low paid due to restrictions placed on you by caring role. You are not allowed to work more than 25 hours, nor can you if you want to care effectively. The carer pension is reduced by 50% starting at a threshold of about $75 a week for a single and about $135 a week for a couple. Slashing 50% off the pay from a low paid part time job, means you are anchored in poverty.
Caring is not the same as being unemployed whereby any work alievates being unemployed by definition. The carer role is not lessened by being employed, it is simply doubling your work load. The more you put into the second role the less compensation you get for the former. The carer is keeping the cared for out of the medical system, and so is saving the system a fortune and getting a pittance in return. Making the carer role untenable means those in need for care will end up being a huge drain on a system that can't cope with them
Giving up a well paid career to live on a pittance to care for someone else is far from easy, nor ordinary, it takes a special level of empathy and sacrifice to do so. Someone whos goal is to work obsessively whose only purpose is to make themselves as comfortable as possible, is not a badge of being a great person
If I am ordinary, I am proud to be ordinary, I am a far better person than when I had lucrative professional career and was shouting myself expensive trips and luxuries, because I thought I was better than ordinary..no I was just self interested then. I didn't care about "ordinary" people, I thought they should just "earn or learn' too. I am ashamed I used to think like that. I was not better, I was just ignorant
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ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL STUFF UPS!!
