> I also dislike deliberately deceiving
> people. She presented herself to her co-workers as something she was not
> and she did so for personal gain.
Oh, going undercover isn't lying. Lots of employers don't hire skilled, educated workers -- too much trouble -- and lots of people wouldn't talk to you, or would give you a heavily censored version of the truth, if they knew you were a journalist/ethnographer/anthropologist/intellectual.
Dennis Perrin has a point, though. Extended unemployment/underemployment really and truly does awful things to the body and brain, even for those of us who have advanced degrees. We often focus on the overt violence of this system -- its genocidal wars and neocolonialisms -- but it's important to recognize the endemic, daily violence of capitalism.
-- DRR