Nickel and Dimed Chapter 3 "Selling in Minnesota
Ehrenreich states that she has "regressed" because of the psychological toll of her low-wage jobs, that the person she's become is "meaner and slyer than I am, more cherishing of grudges, and not quite as smart as I'd hoped." Do you think this change is what happens to most people who work demanding low-wage jobs? If you had to work a difficult low-wage job, do you think your personality would change for the worse? Do you think this low-wage mentality affects our national discourse on divisions related to the culture wars?