Nothing changes
When I was a kid growing up in London, I always used to wonder at public works employees. You would invariably see one man digging a hole while four or five others watched.
Much the same philosophy applies in the US, though as a nominally capitalist economy, we have reduced the worker:watcher ratio to 1:1 which, I suppose, is a bargain for the taxpayer.
G1, 1/100, f/6.3, ISO 100
I watched these chaps for a couple of minutes and can attest that the fat one did absolutely nothing during that time. Spotted in The Tenderloin the other day.
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One spreads the cement, the other carries the bucket. Don’t mix the two up otherwise unions will jump on you !