What does this mean? from nick and dimed?

Question

We confess everything else in our society-s*x, crime, illness. But no one wants to reveal what they earn or how they got it. the money taboo is the one thing that employers can always count on.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

nickel-and-dime  Definition

☆ nickel-and-dime (nik′əl ən dīm′)

adjective

   1. costing or spending little; cheap

   2. of little value or importance; minor; petty

transitive verb nick′el- (or nick′eled-)and-dimed′, nick′el- (or nick′eling-)and-dim′ing

   1. to spend very little on

   2. to weaken, erode, destroy, etc. as by the repeated expenditure of small sums or repeated niggling actions

intransitive verb

to spend very little

nickel-and-dime Idioms

nickel-and-dime it

to succeed or obtain something gradually by the repeated expenditure of small sums or the slow gathering of votes, power, money, etc. in small increments

Answer 3

What I think this quote is basically saying is that we have no problem telling people how we feel when we are sick, or bragging to others when we do something we aren't suppose to, but when someone asks you how much you make, people make it seem like it is a big secret. Because of this, employers don't have to give people too much when someone else makes more becuase there is a big chance that no one will say how much they make so the can't compare with others.

Answer 4

To be nickeled and dimed means that someone has tried to

make you pay extra by adding charges. I think cel phone

bills must be like this.  They advertise that it only costs

X number of dollars a month. Then when the bill comes in

it is X number of dollars a month all right and then it is this amount for texting and that amount for rental and then another amount for roaming charges and then more money for this by the time they have finished 'nickelling and diming you' the bill is ten times X. It is squeezing money out of you for little things that end up adding up to a very big thing.