Nomadland
by Jessica Bruder, Harper Audio, Bruder jessica / peronny nathalie · first published 2017
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"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Jessica Br
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on “Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara” ↗Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America In The Twenty-First Century is a very good look into the RV'ers and their lives[0, 1]. Though at first, many people profess to love the freedom of the RV life, upon further inspection,…
on “The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, a Hired Desk and a Handful of Clothes” ↗…everything from head to toes, telling you how different park of your body function and malfunction. Loved it, planning to read many more time, too much info to digest in one time. Highly recommended! * Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212124-nomadland These people didn't choose to live in RVs and vans, they had no choice due to…
on “Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?” ↗On a vaguely related note, Nomadland (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34068480-nomadland) is a really good book that describes both living in a van and why a lot of people are considering (aka being forced into) the (van/RV)-dwelling…
on “The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van” ↗…space limitations, loneliness, high maintenance cost, etc. And most of all, vanlife is still outside of conventions and one can be judged for it. I’d love to explore these dynamics thru a game. P.S. Nomadland has been one of my favorite films. The book is just as good. There are millions who try to find peace on their own terms.
on “Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games?” ↗Yes,mit's getting pretty popular. I read Nomadland by Jessica Bruder earlier this year. A significant number of baby-boomers have taken to the road, often because of a lack of retirement funds. Having gotten a travel trailer 18 mos ago and travelled…
on “Car campers in beach parking lots” ↗There are people who prefer seasonal work. Maybe Xmas and summer gigs with rest of year off. Read the book Nomadland for details.
on “200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week” ↗…while many of those boomers are just wanting to check out the experience, many have found that their "retirement plans" aren't able to include a regular home. This is partly the subject of this book: Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century http://a.co/htj0AfR
on “Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream” ↗The article was written by Jessica Bruder, who wrote the Nomadland novel.
on “The End of Retirement (2014)” ↗The book Nomadland covers the roaming vanlife pre 2017 that was supplying a lot of seasonal workers to Amazon warehouses, forest service employees and farm workers. (recruiters for all those places targeted people living…
on “Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021” ↗Nomadland (the book) is nonfiction, not a novel.
on “The End of Retirement (2014)” ↗…years for the same reason. The fact that both retailers have a ton of workers also means there are plenty of hard luck stories to tell. In Amazon's case I know of at least one rather interesting book (Nomadland) to come out of stories about the camper communities that spring up around Amazon fulfillment centers.
on “Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees” ↗You're right. The movie Nomadland is based on the book, but has been fictionalized.
on “The End of Retirement (2014)” ↗Nomadland the book documents this for a lot of Americans surviving in the brink in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, turning to living in vans and RVs, a less glamorous version of van life, barely scraping by and…
on “Anatomy of US inequality” ↗