I'm seeing a lot of comments in here made from the perspective of people who have never had the experience of being caught on the poverty flypaper. Preying upo

I'm seeing a lot of comments in here made from the perspective of people who have never had the experience of being caught on the poverty flypaper. Preying upon the weak is an industry. The admonition to "work harder!" is propaganda disseminated by those who passively benefit from the labor of others. The fact is that wages have not risen along with productivity: it is mostly just ownership dividends that rise. A food-service worker should be able to enjoy the benefits that have accrued to our civilization over many centuries of specialized labor, and still be a functional person in civil society after a day's labor is done--even though food-service work is one of our lowest-status specialties. Even the least of us are still persons in their own right, and in a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, we are all far more likely to stumble into deeper embarrassment than to recover those grandiose estates that were so unfortunately lost when we erred in choosing our parents.