Nickel and Dimed was a long but interesting book. It gave me much insight on how hard it is to make a living in America as a blue-collar worker. These people work extremely hard working service and labor jobs, without which society would suffer, and still get paid minimum wage. They work their lives away day after day and struggle to make a decent living. A quote from the book states, “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're actually selling is your life.”
In class, we discussed how we could stop the poor quality of life these people have to live in. A common suggestion was to raise the minimum wage in order for the workers to earn more money. There's much debate about this among economists, yet slowly but surely minimum wage is rising. I myself believe that blue-collar workers should be treated with more respect in general and paid more than what they are currently.
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