Making feel guilty and awkward around earning money is such a great tool of social control. I've kinda got to begrudgingly respect whatever asshole came up with it.
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I think that's part of it, yeah, but it seems to be a phenomenon even among similar salary people.
(Also I wouldn't rule out "It's difficult to be friends with people with very different salaries" as part of the *mechanism* of social control rather than an innocent intrinsic fact of life)
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I think the innocent explanations "people with different salaries have different cost/time tradeoffs" and "it sucks to always be the one on the receiving end of charity" are sufficient.
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They're sufficient within the system as it exists, yes, but that is itself an artefact, and various features of that system significantly exacerbate those explanations: The range of salaries you can easily be friends with broadens significantly if people aren't struggling.
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