> it's not that hard to achieve ... from minimum wage jobs through decades of professional career.
i highly doubt somebody on a minimum wage job can choose to work only 4 days a week.
i highly doubt somebody on a minimum wage job can choose to work only 4 days a week.
> I frequently take many months off between jobs, sometimes a year or more.
Definitely speaking from a place of privilege. Single moms living in poverty don't have the luxury to care for her mental health. She probably can't take even a few days off, voluntarily, much rather months or years.
Let me ask you (caymanjim), in the months and years you take off, how do you subsist? The average American has, what, less than $500 in savings?
Privilege colors your views on reality, and I would love for all of us to get there, but let's not imagine that this "isn't hard to do". It is. It really is.
What cracks me up is that oftentimes, the victims don't even care or don't get nearly as mad as the bystandars. Same story with tech workers getting mad about how Amazon pays their employees. Is there any real harm being done here?
So I gotta wonder, why are the bystanders more mad than the alleged "victims" themselves? Do you realize how screwed up this is?
And for anyone in that situation: how many of them are too poor to pay rent?
Can you clarify, cause I'm not sure what issue you're addressing? Am I a "bystander" in this, or an "alleged victim"?
As a "bystander," you think, therefore, that I am not poor/in poverty? What gave you that idea?
And, sociologically speaking, sometimes single motherhood is connected to privilege, or a lack thereof.
The weirdest part, though, is voluntary taking several months or even a year between jobs. Now that is proper privilege.
Probably because we assume that when he wants a job he can get one, and one that pays for all the time of as well, at the drop of a hat. But it's not so for someone without in demand skills.