Normally I’m not one to tear down the creative output of others, but articles like this make it very hard to not do so. It reads like a barely-cohesive list of tangents loosely tied together with a poor attempt at a “lesson,” but lacks any substance or voice. What is it trying to say? Even the author doesn’t seem to know, beyond waxing poetic (poorly, I might add) about how difficult it is to have a job and how our individual consumerism is creating a class of “undesirable” jobs that can otherwise be eliminated with just a little more mindfulness and self-reliance…I think? Maybe?

At its core though, this to me reads as a poor attempt at defending the wealth class and shifting the burden of responsibility to the individual. Nowhere is there a discussion about the actual issue with CEOs in society (hint: it’s not because they exist or don’t have a “tough” job, but because the wages and compensation are grossly and wildly out of sync with the product of their indovidual labor), or a discussion about what the author learned in the course of their one week playing housekeeper dress up and how it relates to CEOs in any way? Instead it reads as a privileged teen’s incoherent ramblings about that one week they played grown up, while simultaneously testing various blogging and SEO strategies (all the unnecessary links, formatting…etc), all tied together (poorly) with an attempt to set it in the foreground of “conscientious” hot topics like labor, effects of rampant consumerism in modern society, class consciousness, and environmentalism…