Re:Why I Would Raise Chickens
by paganel on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:50AM
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The poorer parts of Romania.
> Are they $2/day because they don't have jobs, or because they work but they only make $2
It was, let's say difficult, for them to find a steady job in their early 50s after the steel works factory that was feeding my hometown and where they had worked for almost all their life closed down. They had to sell the city apartment (because bills have a nasty habit of showing up at your door each and every month) and moved out to the country-house, where at least they were able to put some food on their table.
I shared these personal details because I think that my parents' story happened to a lot of people in Eastern Europe in the '90s-early 2000s (Russia saw its average life expectancy actually go down in the '90s), I'm talking about people who fell hard through the social safety net's very large holes. Things are better now, of course, but there are entire generations who saw their entire life's work go to nothing. I think a similar thing is now happening in places like Greece.
> Are they $2/day because they don't have jobs, or because they work but they only make $2
It was, let's say difficult, for them to find a steady job in their early 50s after the steel works factory that was feeding my hometown and where they had worked for almost all their life closed down. They had to sell the city apartment (because bills have a nasty habit of showing up at your door each and every month) and moved out to the country-house, where at least they were able to put some food on their table.
I shared these personal details because I think that my parents' story happened to a lot of people in Eastern Europe in the '90s-early 2000s (Russia saw its average life expectancy actually go down in the '90s), I'm talking about people who fell hard through the social safety net's very large holes. Things are better now, of course, but there are entire generations who saw their entire life's work go to nothing. I think a similar thing is now happening in places like Greece.