Nickel and Dimed

In the New York Times Bestselling novel, Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, she goes through a series of jobs more or less distasteful than the next. Most of the problems she encounters however are personal problems dealing with the way she thinks things should be run, and how she thinks things should happen in the world. As a person who holds a PhD in Biology, she is obviously used to a better life style. In her first job she ends up quitting due to the fact that she got reprimanded for eating on the job. In her evaluation she admits that doing these jobs wasn't as easy as she had first thought them to be. The difficulty in them is not, however, in the amount of skill one possesses, but in the way she manages her stress and hardship she has to deal with. Overall her evaluation had many communist undertones regarding the status of what she believes everyone should be. In a perfect world should everyone be equal and get equal pay? Or should they be able to make choices that bump them up the ladder of the social hierarchy that has existed since the dawn of man? This book was intriguing and thought provoking to say the least.

10) Honestly to me a "living wage" is the wage that is set so people don't die of starvation and hunger. In order to calculate a proper living wage one has to take into account the different expenses one needs to "live". This should be determined by each area of the U.S. of A. due to the fact that some places cost more to live in. You're not going to live in Beverly Hills on $7.00 an hour. Expenses would include housing, food, clothing, and transportation.