Navigating rich people’s snobbery has been a huge theme in my life. It’s a big part of why I can’t stand the language of identity politics. It’s a way for rich people to exclude people who didn’t go to their schools.
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I can tell you for sure rich people are incredibly threatened by people outside of their circles. Any halfway thoughtful outsider pisses them off, bc they need the lie that they’re the deserving wealthy.
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Of course no one gets wealthy by being a superior person. But very few people can accept the basic unfairness of their good luck. So all kinds of trappings of “quality people” get created, whether that’s the right street, the right school, or the right phrases.
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Of course there is a special sadness to the way financial luck ends up torturing the lucky with the perpetual, un-winnable shame of unworthiness. They want to be good, but they’ve never needed other people’s goodness so they don’t know what goodness feels like.
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