While reading your  comment I remembered how I felt reading Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich -- agreed with most of her premise about the slave-wage economy but I rolled my eyes hard when she went on and on about how this one girl she worked with on a Merry Maids crew was hungry all the time or malnourished because on her shitty wages she couldn't afford either good food or had the time to prepare decent meals.  At the time I, too, had a minimum wage job coupled with substitute teaching and single living on my own, but I had enough common sense to buy a cheap little crockpot from the thrift store and from very cheap ingredients had meals for the whole week.  I'm thinking as I read "WTF, lady, so if you feel so badly for this girl then why don't you clue her in on that?"   Jesus H lol.  Anyway, she also insinuated that min wage level workers smoke more and are fat because of poverty, then my eyes rolled out of my head and stopped reading ;D