re: #417 Obdicut

Except Ehenrich didn’t claim she understood exactly how those women feel. The book is a good reminder of how desperate and undignified work at the lowest levels is. That she found it quite a bit more undignified since she’s solidly middle-class is true, but she points that out— that she’s a total wimp compared to the women who really do this for a living.

I think you can get just as much out of John Cheese’s articles at cracked.com where he writes “5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor” (can’t link from the firewall here), he actually did live on minimum wage for a while, not out of choice.