First, let's clarify whatinspiration porn is(Stella Young provided an excellent summary.)
It's not really the writing.Reporter Jessica Bruder pitched in at the Amazon warehouse and the beet farm, and i think she did a decent job of trying to understand what keeps the nomads on the road. But I couldn't help being reminded of a poster from Disabled Student Resources that felt like a compliment when I started at the university, and kind of backhanded slap two years later. Anyway, the point of the poster was about how we disabled people actually never take off from work and work longer at the same job, etc.
Which is what pervades this book about these older white people living on close to nothing, that they do these part-time underpaid jobs with great attitudes and full commitment(and no sick days)
Maybe if it was more of a choice, instead of a last response to increasing desperation,nomadism could be cool.
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