No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
Barbara EhrenreichA lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara EhrenreichFor anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
Barbara Ehrenreichin our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.
Barbara EhrenreichIt seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
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