Do What You Gotta Do

The old capitalist refrain makes jackals of us all.

One of my guilty pleasures is watching Chicago PD, a popular police procedural about a gang of fascist cops who justify torturing and murdering suspects as “doing what they gotta do to protect our streets.”

I laughed every time I heard it. Until recently, when I realized that line of copaganda applies to 75% of jobs in America. The sad thing is, it appli…