Lesson || What you do is what you are by Nickie McWhirter || Summary || Critical appreciation

"What you do is what you are" ,In this article, the writer says that Americans give respect and define people on the basis of jobs they do. They value people according to the money they earn. While talking about people they tag the name of the job with their names such as doctor or teacher etc. They consider low income people as worthless. 
Jobless people are not recognized by society as having much value at all. The low paid people and some jobs are considered as just something. They use the word just in meaning of only by which they give the impression of degradation for the person.