Finally reading Nickled and Dimed. The book feels universal and timeless, and I'm only in the beginning.
Pierce Nettling
@pnettling.bsky.social
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Researcher and reader of the urban life. Formerly known as an academic focused on tenants on that other site.
!["We’re not criminals, and we’ve been here for years now, some fifteen or twenty years, trying to make a living. We always pay our taxes, just to have them do these terrible things to us. I think that he [Narciso Barranco] was older, which is why they took him down. He wasn’t doing anything, he wasn’t stealing anything, he wasn’t doing anything wrong at all, he was just doing his job. So why do other people, those who commit greater offenses—the corrupt ones, some working for this very government—why aren’t they paying attention to what’s happening among themselves? They only focus on the poor, the people who are fighting to make a living, trying to earn enough to feed our families. Those of us living here aren’t criminals. Sometimes the police drive by when we’re waiting for work, and if we were criminals, they would’ve taken us away by now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:whkwshl6hbdotj7h4xqsxuid/bafkreigabqmbkng6sdnkhudg4xaszumbrikmsbiga5cxz2i6insclrtqhy)
