college also wasn’t something that the vast majority of the population could afford or were interested in doing at the time. only the brilliant and the elite went to college, and they usually went with a purpose: to become a lawyer, to study business and eventually take over the family business, to become a research…

well sure... as a preschool teacher you’re being paid, mostly, by this same underpaid demographic.

depends on where you live. $40,000/yr (assuming full-time) won’t go far in most urban areas these days but you can make due. I made a bit less than the current average a few years ago and was able to scrape out a living with a little extra for booze... wasn’t fun, though. and i would never have been able to raise a…

historically speaking (post-industrialization) unionization is the only way workers have been able to successfully improve their lot and maintain those improvements over time.

when i was a kid my family stopped at a red robin on the way to a beach vacation somewhere between philly and atlantic city. this would have been around 2000'ish and it was my first exposure to red robin. they had these drink things that my siblings and i went absolutely bonkers for. they were called ‘infusions’ or…