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لماذا يحتقر المتسولون؟

"لقد صار المال اختبار الفضيلة الأكبر في هذا الاختبار يفشل المتسولون. ولهذا يحتقرون. ولو أمكن كسب عشرة باونات أسبوعيًا من التسول لصار التسول مهنة محترمة، على الفور. إذا نظرنا إلى المتسول نظرة واقعية فلسوف نجده ببساطة، رجل أعمال، ومثل رجال الأعمال الآخرين يكسب رزقه. بالطريقة التي يعتمدها. وهو لم يبع شرفه أكثر مما فعل معظم الناس. لقد أخط
فقط في اختياره مهنة يستحيل معها أن يصير غنيًا."

"السؤال الذي أقدمه هو : لماذا تستمر هذه الحياة _ ما غايتها ، و من يريد استمرارها، ولماذا؟ أنا أحاول أن أتفكر في الأهمية الاجتماعية لحياة غاسل الصحون، أعتقد ، بدءا بالقول أن غاسل الصحون هو أحد عبيد العالم الحديث."

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'The average millionaire is only the average dishwasher in a suit.'

'The trouble is, intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have Liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor' - thia is just the average Exeter Uni student.

It's depressing how we have gone no further from this mindset.

Progress is slow, moving and starting work is a bit long
Orwell will always be a fun read

reading this book while starving and stuck on an underground train—Orwell would approve

Świetny opis pracy w gastro 😵‍💫

“tagad klausieties, mans dārgais angļu kungs, vai drīkstu jūs informēt, ka jūs esat maukas dēls?”

this book kind of reminds me of hemingway

This my be a new fav

I think I'll find this one very interesting...

i think I'll find this one very interesting...

مذكرات بشكل قصصي عن حياة الفقر والحرمان التي عاشها أورويل. صدر الكتاب عندما كان عمره ثلاثون عاما. قراءة روووعة..
Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933

I really like the book. It’s my first time reading George Orwell and it’s he’s honestly great. I had no expectations and wasn’t sure what type of book it was. I’m used to fiction stories like S. King so I was surprised to see it’s a personal story of his. I like that he narrates it as if we were having a conversation 1v1. Very simple witting and easy to understand, just what I like

Dobrze się to czyta i rozumiem zamysł ale w porównaniu do folwarku zwierzęcego i 1984 ta książka na razie wypada średnio…

Dopiero teraz zrozumiałam, że to biografia Orwella

غير أن الرتابة أطبقت عليهم حتي غدا التفكير مستحيلاً...ولو فكر غاسلو الصحون قليلاً لشكّلوا نقابة منذ أمد بعيد وأضربوا عن العمل مطالبين بمعاملة فضلي..لكنهم لا يفكرون لأنهم لا يملكون هذا الترف ،فقد حولتهم ساعات العمل الطويلة وحياتهم الشاقة إلي عبيد.

Live a life like homeless people is not easy even only to imagine. Orwell give us empathy for them. And for me, the way he thought that there's no different in term of 'morality' between homeless and worker is really make sense. We only differentiate them by 'how much money they make'.

The way orwell describe environment in each Spike he went, I just can't believe such a place is exist. Such a chaos. It's hard to even imagine. But at the same time gave us insight about how life can be so hard and cruel to you.

In London is even much worse for Orwell. He has to be a homeless—which did not happen while in Paris—and have no chance to get a Job. He came to the point where the world is becoming cruel when you're shrouded in poverty.

Orwell's really had miserable life in Paris. The way he tried so hard to live with 'so little money' is hard to imagine, yet amazing. Also his job activity that happened in Hotel make me can feel the slavery going on there. Next, he'll go to London.

“the employee is paid for the boulot, meaning an imitation of good service”

^ this is the only book ive read that talks about the hospitality business properly

He has a way of depicting the ugly miserable nature of Paris lower class, that makes u want to shower after an hour of reading.

His musings on Labour must have been progressive at the time, the analogies he draws are some what dated, but the fact stands: fear of the mob drives the consumerist machine to swallow us all into useless jobs.

Everyone say thank you to Caitlin for posting this back to me

the conditions are wild i must say

i’m fascinated

my friend i think it’s time you get a job

i think i just burned my eyes reading this outside why are the pages so bright

bad habits much drink less