On The Daily Wire’s The Ben Shapiro Show today, right-wing privileged twit Ben Shapiro callously poor-shamed those who are working more than one job to make ends meet and still struggling to do so.
Samantha Grasso at Splinter News:
Right-wing troll Ben Shapiro has some helpful advice for anyone who’s working two jobs and still struggling to make ends meet. Well, it’s less advice, and more a deeply immoral critique: How dumb are you for taking a low-paying job that requires you to get a second job in the first place!!
“If you had to work more than one job to have a roof over your head or food on the table, you probably shouldn’t have taken the job that’s not paying you enough. That’d be a you problem,” Shapiro said on Wednesday’s episode of his podcast.
Rachel Leishman at The Mary Sue:
The video in question has Ben Shapiro saying that it is “not true” that the majority of Americans are working two jobs or more (Shapiro is wrong; that is true), and asserts that it is a you problem for accepting a job that doesn’t pay enough.
Here is why, to me, this is peak privilege: In Shapiro’s dream world, you have the luxury of turning down a job that doesn’t offer you enough money. Many of us are living paycheck to paycheck, frantic to make ends meet. So, if we’re offered any source of income, we have to take it in order to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.
Media Matters for American researcher Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell):
Shapiro is dead wrong, as he about always is on matters relating to income inequality (among other subjects). Taking a second job to make ends meet is NOT a “you problem”, you overprivileged doofus!
From the 08.14.2019 edition of The Daily Wire’s The Ben Shapiro Show: