Angel ’s Reviews > The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy > Status Update

Exploitative low wages and child care. Many parents in this boat try to get child care free, but it is never really free. "Of course it isn't free-- the cost of low wages is damage to children and overworked, overanxious mothers." Not that employers, for the most part, give a shit.

A question to ask: "Do losses to a family, probably an extended family, maybe even a community eroded by mounting poverty-induced problems-- does all that matter in a larger way?" I think it does, and something should be done about it. Then again, I am not a selfish asshole.

Typical selfish out of touch employer attitude, discussing how "inconvenient it was that these workers [that they employ] had families at all, because raising children is so time demanding." Maybe if you guys did not pay shit wages, that would not be a problem, or "an inconvenience." Too bad you can't discriminate to weed out parents and pregnant women, huh? (well, legally at least).

Just finished reading the introduction to the book.