Friday, April 13, 2012

30 days

I just watched an episode of thirty days in which a couple, middle classers, lived on minimum wage for 30 days. From my window on their world it seemed to me that the main difference between actually poor people and middle class tourists (pourisists?) is that the MCs complained about it a lot. Nothing in the episode really surprised me content-wise but it did make me think about the difference between working class and middle class expectations and how powerful that difference is in shaping what people not only feel they deserve but also in framing what they strive for and how they go about it.

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