A short bit of irony
This morning, as Joshua and I left our favorite little morning coffee stop down the street and headed for the bus, we passed a poster that caught my eye. The headline said, "Dinner With Barbara Ehrenreich." She is a sociologist-type journalist of some renown who deals generally with issues of poverty and inequality (not to be confused with the less messy phrase "stratification"). Anyway, she wrote this famous book called nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. This has become the Bible for many inequality scholars who champion social justice and welfare reform. What is ironic is apparently, she is speaking at some dinner at Farmington Country Club, a Charlottesville stalwart of old Southern money, elitism. The irony is just too much.
4 comments:
Good call, mair. redhurt's wife and I were just talking about Nickel and Dimed the other day--something about it rubbed us the wrong way. Have you read it?
What did you have at the coffee shop?
I actually have not read it, but have read of it in several other influental works that cite it. Why did it rub you the wrong way?
I had a mocha valencia. It was perfect, the valencia was a flavor..not really a taste. Just the way it should be.
I actually have not read it, but have read of it in several other influental works that cite it. Why did it rub you the wrong way?
I had a mocha valencia. It was perfect, the valencia was a flavor..not really a taste. Just the way it should be.
Well, as you probably know she becomes a member of the working class and tries to make ends meet on minimum wage, sometimes getting multiple jobs at the same time. It was so artificial, and she was weirdly condescending about it--"I've become one of the working poor, and they're actually really nice people." Worth reading, but not spectacular.
Good work on the mocha. What did j. morgan have? Quadruple espresso with a shot of red bull?
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