#low status

“You must be making a lot of money because you’ve certainly taken a beating as far as status is concerned.”

This was my economics professor’s son, about my recent transformation from an economics graduate to a farmer.

I was working with my hands - and raising and selling chickens! Including chicken shit (I almost did this but I couldn’t find a buyer!).

Reflecting on his statement, I realize how much we despise manual work and the CHASHA.

Yes, now I was a CHASHA: on my hands and knees, vaccinating pullets, filling their feeders, turning up the litter...To what hideous, shameful DEPTHS had I descended. I was a disgrace.

And then I was going door to door, hawking my birds to anyone desperate for white meat.

I had become a commoner - and, for all the bullshit about Bangalee bhai-bhai, we loathe farmers, the CHASHA-BHUSHA people like I was.

Bullshit and chicken shit!  

Receiving money-saving gifts makes people feel ashamed

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A recent study found that people reacted negatively to gifts that they were told – or that they inferred – were given to help them save money.

The study was published recently in the ‘Journal of the Association for Consumer Research’.

In a series of studies, researchers found that people reacted negatively to gifts that they were told – or that they inferred – were given to help them…