Making Less Money than My Partner is Damaging My Self Esteem and Mental Health

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Income inequality and the wage gape has a personal cost that can be oft overlooked. May Koiner, a freelance journalist, writes about the lack of stable wages in the writing industry, the effect it has on her mental health and relationship with her software testing boyfriend.

Personal EssayMay KoinerJuly 26, 2019money, class, bisexuality, misogyny, love, non fiction, sexism, home, work, career

Alien

Our product is not only owned by the non-laboring elite, it is hardly even tangible, even to those who consume it, even to ourselves. Who would mourn our loss if those owners, those who alienated us from our work, decided once again to take our livelihoods away?

Personal EssayHannah TalebSeptember 20, 2017service work, class, capitalism, marxism