"Nickel and Dimed"
Mar. 7th, 2006 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just finished reading "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. In the book, she goes undercover to work a series of minimum-wage jobs to see what life is like for the working class.
After reading it i'm so grateful for everything I have.
A kitchen to store and cook my food
Doors that lock
Health insurance
Paid time off (lots of it actually)
Cable TV
Internet access at home
Great friends to go to for advice if I were to lose my job
More books than I could ever hope to read
and much, much more.
After reading it i'm so grateful for everything I have.
A kitchen to store and cook my food
Doors that lock
Health insurance
Paid time off (lots of it actually)
Cable TV
Internet access at home
Great friends to go to for advice if I were to lose my job
More books than I could ever hope to read
and much, much more.
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Date: 2006-03-07 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-07 12:16 pm (UTC)However, do NOT read her latest book, the name of which I'm forgetting, about job searching. It's incredibly depressing.
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Date: 2006-03-07 02:31 pm (UTC)Which is not to say the point of the book is invalid. Damned valid and growing moreso every day.
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Date: 2006-03-07 03:44 pm (UTC)Her new book is even more bleak.
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Date: 2006-03-08 12:55 am (UTC)In Tsar Nikolai's Russia, people were working 11 hour days, 6 days a week and 10 hours on Sunday. No wonder they revolted.
I'm pretty grateful for what we have too.
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Date: 2006-03-08 05:24 am (UTC)i've got gardens growing
got quiet days
clothes on my back and
food on my plate
got friends to help me
if i call for them
well i don't need anything that i don't have
i've got eyes to see this beautiful land
feet to take me where i want to stand
if there's work to be done
there's these two strong hands
well i don't need anything that i don't have
i don't need anything that i don't have
and some years the rains don't come
some years floods clear out the plains
but if those waters wash this town away
i would still have enough
if she was with me
i've got a roof overhead, stars if i choose
but i've no need to fly, i've got no itch to move
i've got almost nothing, but i understand
that i don't need anything that i don't have
i don't need anything that i don't have