3 ms·
It feels too damn weird investigating a person and drawing conclusions. Have you considered that perhaps her boyfriend or husband also contributes to these tri
by 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 agoWho 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 agoI 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 agoAgreed with this. It's possible she lives really cheaply in order to be able to afford to travel.
- Grishnakh 10y agoIt's not possible to live cheaply in Manhattan.
- Grishnakh 10y agoShe 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.