Just read a story on The Chaser link which led me to this story of a guy in America who was an internet CEO who then decided to go and work at McDonalds. As he was a marketing guy he wanted to "experience a profitable, well-oiled, multi-billion-dollar machine" but also because he'd been in the corporate world for too long, he chose to work behind the counter at McDonalds to "get back in touch with the real world".
Reminds me of the book Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. A white academic writer who went & did a years worth of "unskilled" work amongst the working class in the US. What she found was how the work contributed greatly to health problems & how most of her co-workers were working two jobs in an effort to help make ends meet. The book gives great insight into what contributes to the poverty trap.
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