If you are exhausted from working three jobs just to afford a studio apartment, you are not living—you are surviving. And survival, while necessary, is not enough.
There is a famous line in labor history that sounds less like a political slogan and more like a poem. Bread Roses
Capitalism is very good at giving us things (bread), but it is terrible at giving us time (roses). The system often tells us that anything that isn't productive is a waste. But stopping to smell the roses isn't a distraction from a good life; it is the good life. If you are exhausted from working three jobs
It goes like this: "The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too." Capitalism is very good at giving us things
First, we have to be serious about the "Bread." Bread is the rent. It is the grocery bill, the student loan payment, the healthcare premium, and the emergency fund that keeps the wolf from the door.