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 want to link to it for the purpose of social and marketing commentary but I don’t want to reward stripmining the commons in this fashion.
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But there is no way the structure of this article could be accidental. “We couldn’t afford to rent a suit for my son’s prom so we bought him one on a store credit card.”
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Good God, I thought this was an exaggeration, but... no, that's actually what they said they did
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I can believe there are people who are that self-defeating in the world, because I know a few, but I cannot conceive of the author of the piece including that except to say “Hate them! They have privilege and misused it, and now are cast low, but still consume more than you!”
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