I really think this author&#x27;s post was very selfish, as evidenced by its, well, selfish content (and resorting to begging), and it&#x27;s fine for us to agree to disagree on that matter.<p>But do you really think she was directing this to help others or &#x27;expose the truth&#x27; as you say? Like was it a secret that the entry level customer support job was actually entry level, with wages to match? She knew before moving to SF that she&#x27;d be making SF&#x27;s minimum wage, not SF&#x27;s living wage.<p>I don&#x27;t think anything is being exposed here, and I don&#x27;t think she&#x27;s going to start a movement to get enough people to complain enough to get things to change.<p>If we are talking about the fundamental issue of people not being able to make enough money to live a proper existence within the constructs of our society, I agree with her and you in that it sucks and needs to be fixed systematically.<p>But this didn&#x27;t really seem to be a commentary on that. It seemed more like a pity party anecdote with undertones that she knew would stir up that narrative.<p>Do you see where I&#x27;m coming from? It&#x27;s just hard to pity someone that thinks it makes sense to move to SF at a minimum wage job, in her own apartment, eating out at restaurants every day (see her instagram), while her dad lives there, and then asking for people to directly send her money because of her hardships.<p>I dunno. There are a lot more people much worse off and this person made clearly awful decisions for her well being. It baffles me that people are pitying her, and I&#x27;m being called heartless for this.<p>I&#x27;m curious what you mean by:<p>&gt;There&#x27;s a whole lot of history of this happening with regard to working conditions.<p>This person was working at a place that provided unlimited coconut water to everyone all the time, and she complained about it. I&#x27;d hardly call that harsh working conditions.