The truth. in A small but passable life.

“A man who looks forward to Spring is looking forward to his own death,” da Vinci wrote in a notebook, but in the US today, there are millions who can't wait until they're close enough to death, literally, so as to collect Social Security, because that's the only lifeline they have left. If you're laid off in middle age, you're practically unemployable in this economy, so you must scrounge whatever together to get by day-to-day, for we have morphed from a nation of tradesmen and professionals to a ragged society of temps, desperate improvisers, odd-jobbers and hustlers.

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