"Nickle and Dimed"

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This paper explains that Ehrenreich, describing her personal experiences of living as part of the minimum-wage job market, discovers that the minimum-wage earners cannot escape poverty, mainly because of the cost of housing in California. The author points out that Ehrenreich was moved by experiences that led her to realize the way that the less fortunate are exploited by society. The paper asserts that people who depend on the minimum wage for their survival are largely defined by a society of capitalists who possess the means to exploit the less fortunate.

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"Ehrenreich also describes the way that people are always told that hard work pays off some day, and for this reason one finds the working class willing and eagerly working long hours in the hopes of being rewarded. They are sadly mistaken, because if they can hardly make enough money to keep their heads above the water, how then can they save enough for their retirement? Here, it is worth asserting the manner in which individuals live in a state of "false consciousness" by believing what they are told. Individuals (the agency) act according to what they are told or whatever they are influenced by."

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