Stop pretending you're not rich

Alma · Jun 11, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/...prod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

There’s a kind of class double-think going on here. On the one hand, upper-middle-class Americans believe they are operating in a meritocracy (a belief that allows them to feel entitled to their winnings); on the other hand, they constantly engage in antimeritocratic behavior in order to give their own children a leg up. To the extent that there is any ethical deliberation, it usually results in a justification along the lines of 'Well, maybe it’s wrong, but everyone’s doing it.'"

CD Boogie · Jun 11, 2017

Alma said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/...prod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

There’s a kind of class double-think going on here. On the one hand, upper-middle-class Americans believe they are operating in a meritocracy (a belief that allows them to feel entitled to their winnings); on the other hand, they constantly engage in antimeritocratic behavior in order to give their own children a leg up. To the extent that there is any ethical deliberation, it usually results in a justification along the lines of 'Well, maybe it’s wrong, but everyone’s doing it.'"

Yeah that's pretty much always been the case everywhere for millennia

RickStain · Jun 11, 2017

Wait, I thought those boomers were screwing their children. Which is it?

DanOregon · Jun 11, 2017

Too many big words for me to understand.

Alma · Jun 11, 2017

The gist of the piece - and I agree - is that, on balance, the very rich aren't the enemy of the poor.

It's those folks who live exceedingly well, but only take 1 1/2 vacations per year, who were born between first and second base, but imagine themselves having hoofed out a bunt triple.

cjericho · Jun 11, 2017

Alma said:
The gist of the piece - and I agree - is that, on balance, the very rich aren't the enemy of the poor.

It's those folks who live exceedingly well, but only take 1 1/2 vacations per year, who were born between first and second base, but imagine themselves having hoofed out a bunt triple.

So how does that make them the enemy of the poor?