“…I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes going in and out; the drawing room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes. […] I felt like crying out to him: ‘Fool, will you never guess that close at hand are rooms full of treasures and wonders, such as they eye of man hath not seen, rooms that no step has crossed, but that might be yours to live in, could you but find the handle of the door?’”
— Edith Wharton, The Fullness of Life. (via ablogwithaview)
I just want yall to know that the fact that the unemployment rate in the united states being super low is actually a very very bad thing. Do you know what this means?
It means less people are looking for jobs they actually like, or they actually fit in … this means folks are so desperate to pay for their lives they’ll take anything.
Unemployment rate down being touted as a good thing is absolutely fucking disgusting how they’re manipulating language to make a terrible thing sound good.
this is championing people with degrees in engineering getting jobs at starbucks.
this is celebrating people with ph.ds in english working at walmart.
this is claiming it’s good that the majority of minimum wage workers are all adults 30+ and haven’t had a fucking raise in years.
thats what this is fucking doing.
don’t be fooled by their misleading language. this is NOT a good thing.
If they’re gonna tout the unemployment rate being so low as a good thing, I want them to talk about what tf that means, and talk about what kind of jobs people are taking - are these jobs that pay living wages? that have benefits like health insurance? or are they high turnover shit machines that take advantage of labor by treating their employees like shit. You don’t get to call this a victory if it’s full of predatory business practices and circumventing fair compensation by giving people just under the hours they get benefits at legally
