This section of the Studs Terkel Reader was centered on the working class of America in the 1970’s. Many people didn’t like what the US had turned into. After getting involved in a nine year war in Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal, many Americans began to question their lives. “In the thirties (as rememberers of ‘Hard Times’ remembered), not very many questioned their lot. Those rebels who found flaws in our society were few in number. This time around, ‘the system stinks’ was a phrase almost as recurrent as ‘more or less” (Terkel 315). Capital goods and automated technology had taken the jobs of many assembly line workers. The US population was growing, but jobs were becoming fewer in number. Work was necessary for survival; everyone had to find a job no matter how inferior it was. Dolores Dante took a job as a waitress. The men she served tried to make her job as demeaning as possible. “You’re great, how come you’re just a waitress?” (Terkel 331). Dante needed a way to make quick money, and jobs behind a desk were hard to come by. Other people took up jobs as Barbers or Cab drivers; both of which you had to agree with the customer on everything, even if they were insulting you. The first priority was to maintain good business, and that meant always agreeing with the customer. Times had changed for America; some people were doing better than others. After 70 years, the wedge in society still remained.