Told mother she ought to go live down South with the family instead of spending all her time slaving in shoe factories in order to earn just enough money to spend on the system of expenses that is our society. In Russia they slave for the State, here they slave for expenses. There’s no difference anywhere…people just go rushing off to meaningless jobs day after day, you see them coughing in the subways at dawn, and they never rest, they never relax, they never enjoy life, all they do is “Meet Expenses” - beyond food, they squander their souls on things like “rent,” “decent clothes,” “gas & electricity,” “insurance,” and a million-and-one “decent” appurtenances. Even the birth of a child involves months and months of “pay-money.” Everything “costs money” now.