One of the reasons I attempt to be courteous to retail and wait staff even if they are rude to me is this. They have vastly harder lives than I do and am ever likely to experience again. Attempting to support a family on $9.50 an hour? Hell, I spend about that much on fucking food alone in a month. It is just unconscionable how horribly we treat our own citizens in this country.

And people wonder why Trump won. Not that Trump will make it better — no, he will make it worse. But how much better did Obama make it? Or any other recent president? Neoliberals all.