The cutter is Superman’s or God’s nail to believers. It has intense fine cutting power that slices and separates effortlessly with the elegance of the line. Paper, cardboard, adhesive tape, cable sheathing, the rest of the radish root… There is always a reason to use a cutter, even if we know after using the cutter. One of Spain’s most controversial journalists still works with paper clippings, so he always carries one in his pocket.
The best box cutters (pardon the redundancy) are pharmaceutical. I don’t know if cutting practices are done in the last years of pharmacy faculties, but it needs to be done. They spend part of their day and work with a cutter in their hand. Of course, while it’s not called “pharmacist’s wrist,” there’s a work injury that comes from that repetitive motion that, without it, they wouldn’t be able to collect the Social Security-funded portion of medications so we can pay for the medications so we can get treatment. The pharmaceutical industry can produce new products at prices that are beyond what regular salaried people can pay.
Pharmacists, all of whom belong to countless technological generations, cut the coupon from each medicine box that enters the SSI and paste it on a piece of paper with tape and transparent adhesive tape with precise and firm movements. After the fisherman’s preparation of sea bass, it is one of the things I admire the most. Before there were championships for trading, masonry, mining, field missions… I’d like to see a competition for medicine “cutes”.
Thanks to this anachronistic action, what tears the cutter the most is not the cardboard of the medicine boxes, but the trust in the computer. The state and the bank have digitized our lives, and we have to trust that the banknotes in which our assets and debts are stored are protected with full confidence, but then Social Security does not trust electronics, pharmacists, digital image and wants as usual: paper, page, cut. So from year to year.