Article makes the usual mistake when talking about money, focusing on extremes. The day to day difference is "one guy is a waiter, another guy got a PhD in a bu

Article makes the usual mistake when talking about money, focusing on extremes. The day to day difference is "one guy is a waiter, another guy got a PhD in a bullshit subject and takes ten flights a year". These two people are actually going to rub shoulders with each other. Billionaires are so rare and so far away from us that our envy of them is academic. The envy the waiter feels for the undeserving vacationing professor is more acute precisely because the distance is small. I've found that the "bullshit professor" types tend to think of themselves as being on the same team as the waiters, as in, they're both against the billionaires. I assume the author of this article shows the same belief because they themselves, as a journalist, are part of the bullshit professor class. But the waiters don't see it that way. They mostly just see some trumped up version of themselves who's not much smarter than them and not a harder worker than them who nevertheless gets to live a much easier lifestyle. I think the upper middle class is currently the least admirable it's been in living memory. It used to be something that society had a soft spot for. Now its members are mostly contemptible, anxiety ridden, and cringe.