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Interesting premise so far, but Zeihan is to this point a linear thinker whereas I think a subject such as this one calls for more systemic thinking.

I hope this gets better because so far, this is the whiniest, most self-absorbed character I've ever read. Out-angsty's the angstiest teens in YA. We'll see if there is some growth otherwise it's going to be a huge dud.

I wonder what the Canaanites would think about McLaren's assertion that the Bible is literature of the colonized and not the colonizers.

Great so far, except:

"But understanding the correlation between genotype and phenotype---which DNA code programs which traits---still largely eludes us."

But...then...how can they have a technology that allows such detailed edits to DNA??? 🤨

I think Ellen is a little ridiculous overall, but I love what she said about earning points.

All of these warnings given to Ellen Jaspar sound eerily familiar. 👀🤨🥴

I find it a little distasteful that she is actually taking charity when she doesn't need it (while complaining about the quality of it). Does she think these resources are infinite? Do the research to see what's being offered and then use your massive safety net to procure the same items so you don't waste the time and resources of others.

Why is she wasting so much money eating out? That she then complains that all this fast food is "dispiriting." 🙄

She's mad because they asked her to work an 11 hour shift because they're not supposed to work you more than 40 hours weekly without overtime??? What? Man, wait until she hears about nurses!

No wonder no one ever picked her out as being exceptionally smart. She functions well in her world, I am sure, but living in different classes requires different skill sets. She doesn't seem to grasp this or even notice it.

The way she just walks out of these jobs as if not giving any sort of notice whatsoever isn't going to make the next few shifts hell for the co-workers she is leaving behind is just so, so tone deaf.

Meh. A book about working class people for people who have never been below the bottom 30%.

I find her need to explain what a pizza pocket is hilarious. I wonder if she is too upper class for the frozen food aisle? It was very much a "how much could a banana cost? $10?" kind of moment.

So far, it is as equally mystifying to me that someone has never experienced poverty in adulthood as it is to the author how people survived. What must it be like to have NEVER been poor? 😄

Me to my husband: Do you know someone named Sohrab?

My husband: Yes. Why?

Me: 😂😂😂

I am not sure if I am reading a novel or a thinly veiled journal, but I kind of get it and dig it in a way I don't normally do with these kinds of stories.