这部特定的宏观历史可以追根溯源到大萧条时期;当时,我才十几岁,在一家廉价小餐馆里当侍者,帮忙采办营养一般的家庭贮存食品。餐馆开设在美丽的温哥华城内。在那里,我那颗年轻、善感的心每天都感受到我服侍的那些顾客的贫苦与不列颠哥伦比亚郡的显而易见的无限富足之间的鲜明对比。餐馆的大部分顾客曾经都是农场、林场、矿山或渔场的工人。但是,在大萧条的这些年月里,他们一向从事的工作大多都已消失。他们挣不到工资了,不得不靠地方救济部门每周发给的就餐证维持生活。失业者拿着就餐证,成群结队 This particular macro history dates back to the Great Depression; when I was a teenager, I worked as a waiter in a cheap eatery to help buy nutritious homegrown food. The restaurant is located in the beautiful city of Vancouver. There, my young, affectionate heart felt every day the sharp contrast between the paucity of those customers I served and the seemingly unlimited abundance of British Columbia. Most of the restaurant’s customers used to be workers on farms, forest farms, mines or fishing grounds. However, most of the work they had been engaged in during the Great Depression most of the time had disappeared. They did not earn their salaries and had to rely on weekly meals issued by local relief agencies to survive. Unemployed holding dining cards in droves