"The frustrating thing is..." She has not sustainable energy.
Speaking the truth about class warfare is necessary but insufficient. Ehrenreich is not serious about solutions. If she were, her energy would flow. She has dead energy. Even her anger has a dead staleness to it.
Sunsara Taylor's activism and energy are sustainable and useful.
She brings energy to problems, this woman is an energy suck.
If you remove the light from the room, how are you going to be able to work on a solution?
i know and secondly she didn't go the extra mile she never considered getting a roommate, or living in a shelter the simple fact is she set herself up for failure to prove her bullshit point and wrote three sob stories about it with no real data to back them up
@tapehead004 Yay! So if I just stay single forever, have no children, work so many hours I have no time to spend the money I get on anything meaningful, then I will be just fine. Something is wrong with the system if it only works for single workaholics.
@tapehead004 -- You are a total nut case. There are 50 million poor people in the US. A 20% REAL unemployment rate. The IMF declared the country to be in a depression 2 weeks after George "screw-up" Bush left office and you' re spouting tired old cliches. How do you get to be as disconnected from reality as you are ? Do you work more than 40 hours a week at it ?
She's doing the experiment out of vanity not for a serious "I'm trying to prove something" attitude. All she does is complain about her self-inflated self and not about the actual situation. She handles everything like she is above everyone else. The worst part is how she was afraid of taking a drug test. So I just read a book that gives more money to a pothead so she can buy more pot. Great. How about grow up. She was a baby, she didn't set up the experiment correctly.
Really? Whats "vain" about trying to survivie on minimum wage jobs? I see your 24. I'm assuming you've had at least one minimum wage job. Were you vain for working it? Were you surviving on it? Drug test?? You'd think in a supposed meritocratic system, people would be judged on their work performance and not the kinds of drugs they may or may not use recreationally.
may i please direct your attention to scratchbeginnings (.) com it is another book written as a counter to nickle and dimed in which a college student got on a random train to a random city with only 25 dollars and the clothes on his back, by the end of the year he had a car, an apartment, and 5 grand in savings. nickel and dimed is nothing but a piece of socialist propaganda
I'm not refuting her object of the experiment, to survive on minimum wage, I'm pointing out how she did it incorrectly. She came in with a preconceived notion of how it was going to turn out and when you do that, your idea usually comes to fruition. Well businesses wouldn't want their employees doing illegal things. Drugs lead to drugs and it gets worse from there. If you truly read the book then you would see how she acts all high and mighty about herself, she never gives it a chance.
You should probably re-read the book as an evaluator of fairness on her experiment instead of a person who believes that she is proving a point to society. Don't jump to conclusions because the conclusions are wrong, so look at how she goes about herself.
Barbara u shat up u are no bade u can not open your f c moat talk abut Mr. Bosh
Shat up.
21avasapi 1 year ago
Fuckeng Moran Barbara ass hol.
21avasapi 1 year ago
"The frustrating thing is..." She has not sustainable energy.
Speaking the truth about class warfare is necessary but insufficient. Ehrenreich is not serious about solutions. If she were, her energy would flow. She has dead energy. Even her anger has a dead staleness to it.
Sunsara Taylor's activism and energy are sustainable and useful.
She brings energy to problems, this woman is an energy suck.
If you remove the light from the room, how are you going to be able to work on a solution?
badad4444 1 year ago
If you shop smart, make smart job choices (maybe even work more than 40 hrs a week) and are single it is very easy to not be poor.
tapehead004 2 years ago
i know and secondly she didn't go the extra mile she never considered getting a roommate, or living in a shelter the simple fact is she set herself up for failure to prove her bullshit point and wrote three sob stories about it with no real data to back them up
TheGr3mliin 2 years ago
@tapehead004 Yay! So if I just stay single forever, have no children, work so many hours I have no time to spend the money I get on anything meaningful, then I will be just fine. Something is wrong with the system if it only works for single workaholics.
HolyCows154 1 year ago 2
@HolyCows154
No, you can get married, have kids (but be smart about it), and work 40-50 hours per week and still have time to spend your money.
I'm betting you're not speaking from personal experience.
basshead71 1 year ago
@tapehead004 -- You are a total nut case. There are 50 million poor people in the US. A 20% REAL unemployment rate. The IMF declared the country to be in a depression 2 weeks after George "screw-up" Bush left office and you' re spouting tired old cliches. How do you get to be as disconnected from reality as you are ? Do you work more than 40 hours a week at it ?
tom6612 1 year ago
I 100% agree with tapehead004, but I HAD to read the whole book. Dear lord it was horrible.
SMFApples 2 years ago
How was the book horrible?
mrktwn 2 years ago
She's doing the experiment out of vanity not for a serious "I'm trying to prove something" attitude. All she does is complain about her self-inflated self and not about the actual situation. She handles everything like she is above everyone else. The worst part is how she was afraid of taking a drug test. So I just read a book that gives more money to a pothead so she can buy more pot. Great. How about grow up. She was a baby, she didn't set up the experiment correctly.
SMFApples 2 years ago
Really? Whats "vain" about trying to survivie on minimum wage jobs? I see your 24. I'm assuming you've had at least one minimum wage job. Were you vain for working it? Were you surviving on it? Drug test?? You'd think in a supposed meritocratic system, people would be judged on their work performance and not the kinds of drugs they may or may not use recreationally.
mrktwn 2 years ago
may i please direct your attention to scratchbeginnings (.) com it is another book written as a counter to nickle and dimed in which a college student got on a random train to a random city with only 25 dollars and the clothes on his back, by the end of the year he had a car, an apartment, and 5 grand in savings. nickel and dimed is nothing but a piece of socialist propaganda
TheGr3mliin 2 years ago
Alright. I'll check it out...Thanks.
mrktwn 2 years ago
I'm not refuting her object of the experiment, to survive on minimum wage, I'm pointing out how she did it incorrectly. She came in with a preconceived notion of how it was going to turn out and when you do that, your idea usually comes to fruition. Well businesses wouldn't want their employees doing illegal things. Drugs lead to drugs and it gets worse from there. If you truly read the book then you would see how she acts all high and mighty about herself, she never gives it a chance.
SMFApples 2 years ago
I HAVE read the book but it has been awhile. I dont remember any "pre-concieved notion".
mrktwn 2 years ago
You should probably re-read the book as an evaluator of fairness on her experiment instead of a person who believes that she is proving a point to society. Don't jump to conclusions because the conclusions are wrong, so look at how she goes about herself.
SMFApples 2 years ago
I got through 25 pages of Nickel and Dimed and realized what a joke of a book it was...and I'm poor.
tapehead004 2 years ago
Really? How so? I read the book as well. Didnt think it was much of a joke.
mrktwn 2 years ago