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...poverty, hardship, incredibly long work hours, immigration, separation from their families, cultural alienation from American society and the constant hurdle of a language barrier. From its position of privilege, Harvard management’s overtures to the janitors are consciously dishonest and reflect an unwillingness to understand what paycheck-to-paycheck life is like...
...mayonnaise. It does not matter who makes the sandwich, it always turns out the same and while one earning seven dollars an hours makes some semblance of a living, she in essence makes nothing else. There is no self-expression, self-creation or individuality—just a paycheck, just a job, the suffocation of self...
...confusing thing, though, about many people in our position is that freed from the need to take a job because of the paycheck, we often do so anyway. Instead of seven dollars an hour it’s seventy grand a year, but the principle is still the same, materialism reigns. Where the Subway employee needs, we want and though society has a tendency to exalt our position, individuality falls prey to both equally. The greatest opportunity afforded by our privileged position is the chance to invert the pernicious relationship that subsumes the self to money. But instead of seizing...
...smuggle jihadis and their munitions into India's portion of Kashmir. If he survives the bullets, land mines and mortars that greet him in the freezing no-man's-land between the two countries, the ISI pays him $334 per trip. If not, his family gets his last paycheck. "Every time I leave home," says Ilyas, "my wife and I say goodbye as if we're seeing each other for the last time...
...Despite the soaring skyscrapers of China's eastern seaboard, much of the inland population remains undernourished?and the gap between urban rich and rural poor is yawning ever wider. Unemployment is burgeoning, and millions who are technically employed by the state haven't received a paycheck in months. Bloody labor protests have convulsed dozens of industrial towns this year. Tired of relying on lackadaisical police and ineffectual courts, normal citizens are also becoming restive. "People have no way to complain," says Shan Guangnai, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "So they've started to take...