Low Wage Topic again

Nickel and Dimed. The book basically says everything that needs to be said. After reading this, I decided to use a few quotes to talk about my topic. Such as “changing jobs means a week and possibly more without a paycheck” (116). This statement plagues all these people. They may hate their jobs, but can they possibly afford not to have it? No, they have to stick through it, because money is money, and the need it to survive. They cannot afford to not work. In Scholosser’s Fast Food Nation, they taught what is the most dangerous job, which is incomprehensible to us. These people cannot afford to leave the jobs they have, despite the fact that they are dangerous and possibly life threatening. Such was the case as “‘They used me to the point where I had no body parts left to give…then they just tossed me into the trash can’” (192). Is walking with difficulty, tiring easily, feeling useless, all worth it? Maybe not. But to these people, they don’t have any choice. And also, in Shipler’s The Working Poor, Americans live their lives on a day to day basis, not even knowing about the “forgotten Americas.” “At the bottom its working world, millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight between poverty and well-being” (3). Are these the people that do so much yet earn so little? The people that we don’t even notice? Is this really the American dream? That there are people who have to work countless hours just to barely scrape by? That there are jobs that are life threatening yet needs to be done? That people give their whole lives to then get left behind when they cant work? That they can not afford to switch jobs on the basis that they will lose money? That is not how life should be.