[lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL

[jakub at att.net]

Look, it's much ado about remarkably little, but what I think Ehrenreich was 
referring to in her original comment was people who hire servants, Merry 
Maids, and so on, but then go on and on about how guilty they feel about it, 
and endlessly "justify" it by saying that they're really HELPING these 
people, etc. etc.  To that, Ehrenreich says (no doubt rolling her eyes as she 
does so), well if THAT's the way they feel about it, then why don't they just 
GIVE THEM THE MONEY and do the housework themselves?  She's kind of MAKING 
FUN of rich liberals who need high-falutin' "justifications" for hiring 
household help.  Get it?  Nothing to do with any putative attitude of 
noblesse oblige on her part, or crypto-Christian-Hindu-Buddhist-Animist 
anything.

Jacob Conrad
> > 
> > >Evidently, Ms. Ehrenreich has a very patrician, if not aristocratic,
> > >notion of help as a charitable handout.  How about a more
> > >social-democratic concept of self- and mutual- help and
> cooperativism?
> > 
> > Do you know anything about Barbara Ehrenreich's politics?
> > 
> 
> A little bit.  That is why I found her comments about handing down money
> like charitable donations surprising.  
> 
> Wojtek
> 
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