Warm-up Questions

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1) What does “nickled and dimed” mean?

2) What does “the working poor” mean?

3) How is our society “socially stratified”?

4) What does “wage gap” mean?

5) What does the “erosion of the middle class” mean?

6) What should be the limits of “profit motive”?

7) Does “social mobility” exist?

8) How does a job transform into a “way of life”?

9) Do wealthier persons experience better health and longevity than poorer people?

10) Is there a difference between “feeling rich” as opposed to “being rich”?

11) How should we define the relationship between job descriptions, employee interviews, and personal and professional ethics?

12) How do anti-drug employment policies protect and also violate your rights?

13) Is the economic concept “fair-market rent" actually “fair”?

14) Do corporations abolish “local creativity”?

15) Has television become a great “social inhibitor”?

16) How should we define the relationship between “self-respect” and the “social world” of a job?

17) What is and do we all experience “money dependency”?

18) Have the great American unions disappeared?

19) What should be the relationship between “professionalism” and “identity”?

20) To what extent does our society depend on “economic discrimination”?

21) Are modern day employers “passive-aggressive”?

22) How do jobs for the poor routinely segment and isolate them in society?

23) Who is your greater enemy, the “boss” or the “customer”?

24) How do we define appropriate levels of employee surveillance?