>I never needed much money because living was cheap in New Orleans then, and all I wanted was a place to sleep, a little food, tobacco, and whiskey. There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month.
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This reeks of larping richgay.
Previous sentence literally says:
>I could do a little of almost anything—run boats, paint houses, fly airplanes.
No that’s how it was for smart able bodied people back then, and most of history actually
if that was how it was for most of history then why didnt they have an unemployment crisis?
Here's the data:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html
>They worked for 16 hours a day but it doesn't count because.....uhmm they took lunch breaks and an afternoon nap
I don’t know where you’re from but in a lot of places in the world, especially the southern USA, it was quite literally just too hot to do much for a good portion of the day. My great grandparents were share croppers and the stories passed down from them really reflect this reality. Usually they would get up at around 3 or 4 AM to make breakfast because you can’t do intensive manual labor on an empty stomach and would get to work around 5 or 6. By noon or sometime thereafter it would be too hot to work so they would go back home to eat and rest until about 3 or 4 PM when they would go back to work and work until sundown. When they got home again they would make supper and then if anything around the house had to be done it would be done. Even people who worked in stores and other jobs that weren’t just farming, a very small percentage of people back then mind you, would follow the same rhythms because members of their family did it and there’s no reason to be working when everyone else is back at the house. Imagine opening a convenience store today that’s only open from midnight to 4AM. You might have a few customers but not enough to justify those hours. The standard 8 hour workday was an invention of capitalism. Even back in England when the Industrial Revolution was in its early stages you can find records of capitalists and aristocrats lamenting the schedules of their peasants because it was inefficient. It was actually common in that time for factory workers to take an hour or two hour break at lunch and another in the afternoon. Bringing food to work just wasn’t an option for a lot of people back then.
>The standard 8 hour workday was an invention of capitalism
capitalism invented the 12 hour workday, the 8 hour workday was the labour movement's refinement
The CEOs they need people to fill the offices i heard this on the news, where did they get people to fill the offices if they only worked 150 days a year?
This. 2-3 days of work to pay for rent, food and whiskey and tobacco for a month? No, this didn't happen. Not even in "cheap" New Orleans.
But every writer likes to talk about how poor they were...
>t.too ugly for people to pay you to do things for two or three days and live off the money the rest of the month
well faulkner was a manlet and manlets do get a lot of attention from the homos...
I know it's hard to believe in this modern hellscape, but there was once a time prior to decades of off-the-rails monetary expansion and inflation.
Literally who?
Read moar.
The only books I've seen that come with pictures of the writer on the back are contemporary LGBTQ books.
God I wish all I wanted was cheep and readily available. Books for how to get there bro's?
he looks so sad, i want to hug him 🙁
LOL
Shit I wish life was still that cheap. Even with my barebones living I still need a regular part-time job, and that's without having to pay rent, if I had to pay rent I would need a full time job, and even that might not be enough, I most likely would need roommates to share living costs.
>now rent is expensive, tobacco is highlky taxxed (thirdies and Europoors don't intiate), and a quart of good whisky is more than it should be
Is it over, bros? I'll never be like him.
frick it makes me mad the only thing the government has done for the last half century is just make things worse. we had it all. they only needed to keep to the course. instead they turned their attention on destroying the country instead
actually, this is still possible
(not legal, but possible)