Why has Ted become the God of the working poor? Is something innately wrong with the situation society has produced? While Ehrenreich says, “Getting “reamed out” by Ted can ruin their whole day a morsel of praise will be savored for weeks,” (Ehrenreich,166). Many things promised to Ehrenreich are not given to her and so it is that the bureaucracy controls to deny. Bureaucracies are throughout Nickel and Dimed and it is evident nothing is getting accomplished for the ones working poor on the front lines. Many of the working poor, as viewed, probably do not know who John Calvin is nor does it matter if they do because they are used for their one simplistic purpose and nothing more. Weber’s theories in general fall flat and can be viewed as more archaic in comparison to the working environment of the current working poor. The people work poorly, not due to their Protestant work ethic, but because they want somewhere to sleep at night and something to eat. The economic situation controls more throughout Nickel and Dimed and therefore nullifies much of Weber’s ideas in that regard with religion controlling the economic system. Everything in Ehrenreich’s life is controlled by her keeping up to two jobs to keep her small apartment and sparse supplies.
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