Or an ugly picture of greed and ravenous consumerism fuelled by miserable wages for its workers and miserable lives for its chickens?
What seemed peculiar to her, the writer said, is that people who provide unquestionably vital services--nursing home workers, for instance--earn such miserable wages.
But Bedi points out that constables, who account for about 80% of the police force, get paid miserable wages, are overworked and their welfare is neglected by the state.
If that weren't bad enough, tens of millions of Russians are not being paid even their miserable wages.
But her stylish figure came at a price that was paid by other women working long hours for low wages in the city's miserable sweatshops.
One is to go to a vocational school, as most of her fellow students have done, get a job as a seamstress or a hairdresser at a miserable wage, and live in a rented room for years.
Yannick Etienne, of Batay Ouvriye, the workers' rights organisation, described it as a "miserable" wage.
Our parents and relatives cannot support us, so we depend on this miserable wage.
We don't see him have to eke out a miserable wage in a dying profession, like Clark Kent.
Wet socks make for miserable hikers.
