Upside: gen z appears to spot it all immediately.

If they are indeed tourists, fine. If they’re doing fulltime childcare for you, they are workers, not tourists. Pay them properly. Your replies get shittier and shittier as you try to deny that they’re hired for fulltime work and paid far below minimum, let alone a nanny salary. You sound more like garden-variety…

Hey, keep it up. Just keep in mind that the era of blithely fucking people over because your privilege allows you to appears to be coming to an end, and memories are long.

And yet Netflix doesn’t seem to have got the message at all. I’m on the point of unsubscribing because so many of the movies are lurid fantasies about savaging women in one way or another, and I think I’ve had all the male-superstar-chef movies where they charge people five hundred dollars for a turnip or something…

:/ listened to BIPP — not feeling it. Sounds like unhooky ‘90s electronica. Voice, not exciting. I’m all about roller coasters, but this one, nope. I think you got suckered by marketing.

It’s legal to buy slave-made prison products.
It’s legal to do all kinds of things.

But you are still a bad person for underpaying your childcare workers.

We’re in an interesting time, when people are having their asses handed to them for having done bad things that were, at the time, either legal or socially perfectly…

I’m just hanging out here watching rich women defend paying people bupkes for fulltime childcare. They have so. many. reasons and anyone who says different is just mean.

“She doesn’t need the money because her husband has a good job.”
“She doesn’t need the money because she’s a student and her parents are probably supporting her.”
“She doesn’t need the money because” etc., etc., etc.

The issue is not whether or not she needs the money. The issue is whether or not she’s doing real work…

JEZ WRITERS. For god’s sake, my 14-year-old can distinguish between Gen X and Boomers. Why is this so difficult for you?

PS the kid has no patience for Millennial faffing around either. I think you guys better watch out. This generation is as big as you and really, really has no patience.

If you did several unpaid internships, you were a radically privileged kid, also thoughtless about kids who couldn’t afford to work for free. That’s exactly and explicitly why for-profit employers can’t legally solicit free labor from college students anymore, and nonprofits must at least offer college credit and…

1. The person defending how they underpay childcare workers is trying to tell me what a bad look is. Neat.

My dear, it is low cost precisely because you are exploiting your workers. Understand that factory and shop owners who had staff in dormitories used to give exactly the same excuses for why it was fine to steal their labor. Girls kicking up heels in the big city, one big family, etc.

Yeah, that’s exploitation. Childcare is responsible work. The fact that childcare workers are routinely exploited is not a reason to join in.

Makes no difference at all. If you hire someone and underpay them, or if you make a bargain with them and then try to extract more work than you’re paying for, you are a bad person. Your non-argument is the same one that’s still used for underpaying women generally, btw, and you should burn it.

I hope your au pairs were being paid more than the ones in the story, because if they were expected to do several hours’ childcare a day for three kids at $4.25/hr plus a room, that’s too much work for the money.

Oh, I don’t know, possibly I get really torqued off when upper middle class people come in sighing about how harrrd it was on their families when people wouldn’t allow themselves to be exploited. I mean how on earth were they to know it doesn’t work that way?

Oh. There’s RBG. But that only reinforces the theory.

Jeffrey Goldberg is exhibit 736 in my developing theory that Jews are no damn good once we get more than about a generation away from hardship. Pretty terrific up to that point, except the mobsters and the crazies. But on the whole. After that? Forget it. Brand is skunked till somebody hits reset. I literally cannot…

No, that’s a flat no. Even my high-school-aged daughter knows this is a flat no, and she makes generous excuses for my having committed this error in the 1980s. I mean it was the 1980s, probably it was a choice between blue eyeshadow and, I don’t know, rubbing twigs on your face.

No kidding. I once went after that “ask a manager” person for being totally cool with the idea that it’s fine to pay people working fulltime for you less than what it costs to live on. She genuinely had no idea what the problem was and decided I was a crazy person who needed to be shut down.

My favorite part of her…