Living in Cars, Working for Amazon: Meet America’s New Nomads
December 3rd, 2017Via: Guardian:
Millions of Americans are wrestling with the impossibility of a traditional middle-class existence. In homes across the country, kitchen tables are strewn with unpaid bills. Lights burn late into the night. The same calculations get performed again and again, through exhaustion and sometimes tears.
Wages minus grocery receipts. Minus medical bills. Minus credit card debt. Minus utility fees. Minus student loan and car payments. Minus the biggest expense of all: rent.
In the widening gap between credits and debits hangs a question: which bits of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living?
Book: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder Amazon affiliate link. *snort*
Research Credit: EG
