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Sure, it also means doing all that, while living in the expensive neighborhood without pretending you barely got in, compared to it all comfortably fitting in a
by vmception 5y ago
Sure, it also means doing all that, while living in the expensive neighborhood without pretending you barely got in, compared to it all comfortably fitting in a budget. It means knowing there is widespread resentment towards college kids whose parents pay for it, and paying for it anyway because there’s no utility for that unnecessary struggle for your children.
- uoaei 4y agoYour arguments sum up to "society makes me feel bad for spending my money on expensive things" and, you know, that's a you problem. No one forces you to spend money on your kids' college or to live in an expensive neighborhood. I still don't see how any of this justifies "widening the gulf".
- vmception 4y agoThat’s not the argument. Sorry you got that impression. The “argument” or observation was “Society says I should recognize my privilege, and holy moly I was not leveraging that nearly enough!” There is no guilt associated with that. It was about seeing if anybody could relate, since it isn’t talked about enough but the article was about how some people stopped pretending. I’m totally down with normalizing that. Pretending was insufferable to the people that had wealth and a safety net, it was insufferable to the people that could tell there was a difference in the struggles. Lever tf up, is my argument.
- uoaei 4y agoThat is an antisocial philosophy and, frankly, a disappointment.