There’s a genre of article “personal financial biography” and I believe a trope of this article is finding people who are both sympathetic and made maximally unsympathetic choices to maximize the spread of the article, on the toxoplasma of rage thesis. A prime example is on HN.
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I can't help but wonder if putting their kids into private school is their strategy for generational wealth. Sure, they might leave nothing to their kids but the debt dies with them and the family still has a high standard of living. The only problem is they can never retire.
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The whole thing is basically the setup for "Don't buy stuff you can't afford".
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That’s almost a work of art. I got sucked in to reading the whole thing.
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They are so self aware yet unable to stop!
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It is debt disaster porn, financial accident voyeurism..
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I wonder: was there an editor involved, and if so, did they exacerbate the unsympathetic features?
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