TO THE 53%
“So you have a bachelor’s degree, or maybe you’re a veteran, and you’ve managed to find two entry-level part-time barely-above-minimum-wage jobs. And you work seven days a week with four days off in an average month and you scrimp, save, and never eat out and dry your paper towels in the window over your sink so you can reuse them and you’re on track to pay off your student loans by 2022. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’RE STILL PART OF THE 99%, because you’re not sipping daiquiris in the Cayman Islands or rearranging your furniture in your penthouse apartment.
You having to work two jobs just to make ends meet is not an example of your exceptional work ethic or dedication to gumption or whatever the fuck you’re thinking when you write your spiral notebook manifestos. It’s a sign of a broken system. Congratulations on getting by but you’ll only ever be just getting by, and elsewhere there are thousands of people just like you who got stuck in traffic and were late to the one job interview they’d had in months or had the misfortune to fall the wrong way on icy steps and no health insurance. So no, no one is impressed by you scrambling your way to what you think is the top. MERE SURVIVAL IS NOT, AND NEVER HAS BEEN, THE SAME THING AS LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.”
(via Erwuxvcm | reddit)
