Actually read a book for the first time in over a year
I work nights as a janitor (slovenly prole) and usually fill my downtime with doomscrolling. I used to love reading when I was a kid but that pretty much vaporized as soon as I got my own computer / smartphone in my teens. I maybe read maybe 3-5 books a year, mostly scifi and fantasy trash. Theres a bookshelf in the company breakroom thats full of just the most awful reading material imaginable - christian self-help, tom clancy books written by his estate, yellowy nicotine stained romance novels.
Anyway the book I fished out was called The Nature of Mass Poverty, by John Kenneth Galbraith (1979). Its only about 90 pages so I finished it before the end of my shift. Pretty dry stuff. My copy was from 1984 and was literally falling apart in my hands, so I had to throw it in the trash afterwards. Let me tell you, nothing makes a book seem compelling like having nothing to do for 6 hours and no internet access.
Favorite quote (itself a quotation);
"the only thing worse than being exploited under capitalism is not being exploited under capitalism" - marx