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> The writer, Stephanie Buck, sounds like a pretty out of touch California kid with rich parents. I don't know about you, but I just see photos of the Californ

> The writer, Stephanie Buck, sounds like a pretty out of touch California kid with rich parents. I don't know about you, but I just see photos of the California outdoors, Seattle, and Vancouver on said Instagram profile. Everything looks easily affordable for someone making ~30k/year or more.

whamlastxmas 10y ago
Ok, maybe not filled with "exotic", but at a cursory glance (all within the past year or so): Living in Manhattan while working as a writer (in Manhattan) Thailand Massachusetts New Orleans Austin and surrounding area All over CA All over NY Lake Tahoe Seattle Vancouver Miami TED2015 (tickets are thousands of dollars if I remember right) Attended several exclusive fashion shows in NYC Yeah let's see someone doing this all in the same year while making 30k in a regular 9-5 job. They'd be hard pressed to do ONE of them.
- edgyswingset 10y ago
  It feels too damn weird investigating a person and drawing conclusions. Have you considered that perhaps her boyfriend or husband also contributes to these trips? Or that her employer sent her to things like fashion shows and TED conferences (after all, she was an editor at an online publication and is now a senior writer for another, indicating a level of competence "worthy" of that sort of stuff)? Or that perhaps she lives in a tiny apartment, with perhaps even roommates? Or, like most people, she posts pictures that are nothing but the highlights of her life? There are a huge number of possibilities that you're ignoring because it fits your own narrative.
  - whamlastxmas 10y ago
    Who pays or the reasons why she travels so much isn't really relevant, is it? She gets to do it. She travels more in two weeks than most people do in a year. Whether it's her cushy job, her rich husband, rich parents - she gets to experience all of this. And of course they're highlights, but the point is that she has so many in such a short time span while keeping a job. My point is that she's detached from the reality as 95%+ of Americans have it, and judging by her $100k undergraduate liberal arts degree and growing up in SF, maybe she's never been attached to that reality.
    - mmflint 10y ago
      I find people come to the defense (although you aren't attacking her - just noting how her privilege lends to her lack of self-awareness) of people of higher means in order to feel less guilt about their own privileges/upbringing/good fortune. I assume this is some coping mechanism because people feel attacked when you point out their opinion may be influenced by their affluence and perhaps not all their success is their own.
  - BlackjackCF 10y ago
    Agreed with this. It's possible she lives really cheaply in order to be able to afford to travel.
    - Grishnakh 10y ago
      It's not possible to live cheaply in Manhattan.
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    She probably does live in a tiny apartment, but in Manhattan where she apparently lives, those can easily cost $3000 per month or more. And the previous poster noted that all of those "highlights" were within 1 year. I don't know anyone among my middle-class peers who gets around that much within a year.
- snowwrestler 10y ago
  When a person works as a writer they might be sent to many places and events to write about them. While that might sounds luxurious, the reality is often otherwise. A couple Instagrams from a given location don't mean she was on a 2-week vacation. When I was working as a poor tech consultant's assistant, I traveled to Vegas several times, New York city several times, Boston, and a few other places. I got a few nice pictures along the way but 90+% of my time was spent either in windowless conference rooms or in my cheap hotel, writing. I find it distasteful to try to write the story of a person's life from a few social media posts. Do you post photos illustrating your life hardships to Instagram? Does anyone? I know professional musicians who travel the world playing concerts, but have no retirement savings and share cheap houses when they're at home. Guess which side of their life you'll see on social media. If you want to talk about why you disagree with the ideas in the article, let's do that. This social stalking you're doing is borderline witch hunting IMO.
  - whamlastxmas 10y ago
    I only list it because someone else brought it up. I'm not witch hunting, just providing evidence for my original theory that someone questioned. Yes, obviously, it's impossible to paint the entire picture. Maybe she was in Miami for work and the pictures of her sun bathing on the beach was only a small part of that trip. Maybe going to bars in New Orleans was just for an article, and skiing in Lake Tahoe for Mashable's twitter page, and riding an Elephant in Thailand was research for an investigative article she's doing about animal cruelty. She's such a hard worker, it must be so difficult to do all this for work. She's living the struggle. I should give her more credit.

whamlastxmas 10y ago

Ok, maybe not filled with "exotic", but at a cursory glance (all within the past year or so): Living in Manhattan while working as a writer (in Manhattan) Thailand Massachusetts New Orleans Austin and surrounding area All over CA All over NY Lake Tahoe Seattle Vancouver Miami TED2015 (tickets are thousands of dollars if I remember right) Attended several exclusive fashion shows in NYC Yeah let's see someone doing this all in the same year while making 30k in a regular 9-5 job. They'd be hard pressed to do ONE of them.

edgyswingset 10y ago
It feels too damn weird investigating a person and drawing conclusions. Have you considered that perhaps her boyfriend or husband also contributes to these trips? Or that her employer sent her to things like fashion shows and TED conferences (after all, she was an editor at an online publication and is now a senior writer for another, indicating a level of competence "worthy" of that sort of stuff)? Or that perhaps she lives in a tiny apartment, with perhaps even roommates? Or, like most people, she posts pictures that are nothing but the highlights of her life? There are a huge number of possibilities that you're ignoring because it fits your own narrative.
- whamlastxmas 10y ago
  Who pays or the reasons why she travels so much isn't really relevant, is it? She gets to do it. She travels more in two weeks than most people do in a year. Whether it's her cushy job, her rich husband, rich parents - she gets to experience all of this. And of course they're highlights, but the point is that she has so many in such a short time span while keeping a job. My point is that she's detached from the reality as 95%+ of Americans have it, and judging by her $100k undergraduate liberal arts degree and growing up in SF, maybe she's never been attached to that reality.
  - mmflint 10y ago
    I find people come to the defense (although you aren't attacking her - just noting how her privilege lends to her lack of self-awareness) of people of higher means in order to feel less guilt about their own privileges/upbringing/good fortune. I assume this is some coping mechanism because people feel attacked when you point out their opinion may be influenced by their affluence and perhaps not all their success is their own.
- BlackjackCF 10y ago
  Agreed with this. It's possible she lives really cheaply in order to be able to afford to travel.
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    It's not possible to live cheaply in Manhattan.
- Grishnakh 10y ago
  She probably does live in a tiny apartment, but in Manhattan where she apparently lives, those can easily cost $3000 per month or more. And the previous poster noted that all of those "highlights" were within 1 year. I don't know anyone among my middle-class peers who gets around that much within a year.
snowwrestler 10y ago
When a person works as a writer they might be sent to many places and events to write about them. While that might sounds luxurious, the reality is often otherwise. A couple Instagrams from a given location don't mean she was on a 2-week vacation. When I was working as a poor tech consultant's assistant, I traveled to Vegas several times, New York city several times, Boston, and a few other places. I got a few nice pictures along the way but 90+% of my time was spent either in windowless conference rooms or in my cheap hotel, writing. I find it distasteful to try to write the story of a person's life from a few social media posts. Do you post photos illustrating your life hardships to Instagram? Does anyone? I know professional musicians who travel the world playing concerts, but have no retirement savings and share cheap houses when they're at home. Guess which side of their life you'll see on social media. If you want to talk about why you disagree with the ideas in the article, let's do that. This social stalking you're doing is borderline witch hunting IMO.
- whamlastxmas 10y ago
  I only list it because someone else brought it up. I'm not witch hunting, just providing evidence for my original theory that someone questioned. Yes, obviously, it's impossible to paint the entire picture. Maybe she was in Miami for work and the pictures of her sun bathing on the beach was only a small part of that trip. Maybe going to bars in New Orleans was just for an article, and skiing in Lake Tahoe for Mashable's twitter page, and riding an Elephant in Thailand was research for an investigative article she's doing about animal cruelty. She's such a hard worker, it must be so difficult to do all this for work. She's living the struggle. I should give her more credit.