Who Knew?

Evan is reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle for history. While reading he stumbled across this interesting quote: ***Warning:I laughed so hard that I cried and split open my still healing lip while reading this.***

"I have hardly mentioned the positive economies of cooperation. Allowing five to a family, there are fifteen million families in this country; and at least ten million of these live separately, the domestic drudge being either the wife or a wage-slave. Now set aside the modern system of pneumatic house-cleaning, and the economies of cooperative cooking; and consider one single item, the washing of dishes. Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day's work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons-mostly women- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that his is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work; that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness and ill-temper; of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay."

Well, if you were EVER looking for an excuse to get out of doing the dishes here are twelve good ones - you wouldn't want to be driven into prostitution or insanity now would you?