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Taylor Napolsky

My shift goes 10 to 5:30 working but $12 an hour isn’t

cutting it. Ha ha nobody gives a fuck about that, I’m not

the only one who earns $12 an hour you know, do

you realize what $8 is worth to me shit that’s almost an

hour’s worth of my time, my God, no wonder I don’t

eat out. Wouldn’t it make a huge, huge difference if I

got to ply myself in intellectual and creative practices

rather than spend hours every week on banal frippery

labor, but tell me what you think’s best for me. Whatever

you’re the economics person and it’s best just to have a free

market and I’m not getting older every week. Who cares

how other people get to spend their time. I know what

I’m worth, which is about $12. It’s not such a big

deal if my opinion’s worthless because of my social status, or if that

determines how I’m perceived like, get it, a lot of us

been saying what a more esteemed person says and they

get noticed more ’cause they’re the one who said it which it

isn’t complicated I think we all recognize this for the most

part, which it’s weird to talk about. I get it!

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