stephanie luce, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> now joining us from sir queues new york, a columnist at al jazeera america. you did a really interesting piece on al jazeera's website today, has a lot of traction on social media. comparing today's service workers for in-home servants of a century ago. what did you mean by that? >> if you look at etiquette books of more than a century ago, you'll find that the wages paid to family cooks , actually worked out to a little more than minimum wage forking the clerk at mcdonald's, put that worker will pay taxes, he has to commute to work, subway in new york is $2.50 each way to go to work for example, and the servant in the beginning of the 20th century typically lived in the home of the person they worked for. so that person who worked as a cook was actually paid better tha betterthan today's workers. >> what's happened to the american dream? the american clear says you work full time, you should be able to afford a house, a car, put your children through school. is that basically nowadays? >> it is under the current gover