We should be grateful for what we have. Living in the United States has made our lives satisfying. Most Americans in this country live under a roof, get a good education, have food, drink, and etc. This doesn’t mean that all Americans are provided with their materialistic needs. There are poor people everywhere, believe it or not the United States has poor people. In the excerpt from Nickeled and Dimed, Ehrenreich talks about how most of us people (middle class) don’t see or realize the poor. Ehrenreich argues that “The poor can see the affluent easily enough but the affluent can rarely see the poor”. This argument is supported with examples which claim her argument which are that poor see the wealthy but the wealthy don’t realize the poor,
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Which means they don’t eat well, they don’t eat the good nutritional foods they need. Ehrenreich asks us a question saying “What is harder for the non poor to see is poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift” (page 23). She is implying that consuming unhealthy food consecutively day after day can lead a person to have anxiety and it can make them faint. And we know that it can lead a person to have other health issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and etc. The affluent don’t ever have to go through these tough times. The affluent can have all the fresh nutritional foods they want. They don’t have to suffer and don’t even have to cook their meals they can just hire a maid to prepare all their meals. The maids don’t only prepare meals for them, they do all the other housework such as cleaning around the house. In the text it talks about the expectations of the wealthy person, Ehrenreich says “If you are part of the upper-middle-class majority that employs a maid or maid service, you return from work to find the house miraculously restored to order - the toilet bowls shit - free and gleaming, the socks that you left on the floor levitated back to their normal dwelling place” (page …show more content…
Ehrenreich talks about an article written in 2002 called the “disappearing poor” written by James Fallows. Ehrenreich talks about a quote Fallows mentions which is “it’s hard to understand people for whom a million dollars would be a fortune… not to mention those whom $246 is a full week’s earning”. Ehrenreich pulls this quote out of this article so she can show us the differences of peoples salaries. Obviously if you 're making a million dollars your living comfortably, but if you 're making $246 your struggling in life, probably struggling to pay for food, drink, shelter, family and etc. This quote explains to us that people with a ton of money don’t understand or feel what others are going through who make little
Which means they don’t eat well, they don’t eat the good nutritional foods they need. Ehrenreich asks us a question saying “What is harder for the non poor to see is poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift” (page 23). She is implying that consuming unhealthy food consecutively day after day can lead a person to have anxiety and it can make them faint. And we know that it can lead a person to have other health issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and etc. The affluent don’t ever have to go through these tough times. The affluent can have all the fresh nutritional foods they want. They don’t have to suffer and don’t even have to cook their meals they can just hire a maid to prepare all their meals. The maids don’t only prepare meals for them, they do all the other housework such as cleaning around the house. In the text it talks about the expectations of the wealthy person, Ehrenreich says “If you are part of the upper-middle-class majority that employs a maid or maid service, you return from work to find the house miraculously restored to order - the toilet bowls shit - free and gleaming, the socks that you left on the floor levitated back to their normal dwelling place” (page …show more content…
Ehrenreich talks about an article written in 2002 called the “disappearing poor” written by James Fallows. Ehrenreich talks about a quote Fallows mentions which is “it’s hard to understand people for whom a million dollars would be a fortune… not to mention those whom $246 is a full week’s earning”. Ehrenreich pulls this quote out of this article so she can show us the differences of peoples salaries. Obviously if you 're making a million dollars your living comfortably, but if you 're making $246 your struggling in life, probably struggling to pay for food, drink, shelter, family and etc. This quote explains to us that people with a ton of money don’t understand or feel what others are going through who make little