Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience, but they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky- but all critical to making them who they are.
-Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers
A neutron walks into a bar and asks "how much for a drink"? The bartender says "for you no charge".
- Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theroy, Season 3
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.
- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
I have been discovering a great truth about low-wage word and probably a lot of megdium wage work, too- that nothing happens, or rather the same thing always happens, which amounts, day after day, to nothing.
- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
I love Nickel and Dimed. Everyone just pegs it as the book about how bad Walmart is.... but it is so much more than that.
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