Ezra does better:
The New York Times article on how hard it will be for senior executives to live in New York on $500,000 is the sort of thing that makes me want to burn this rotted society to the ground and salt the earth atop which it once stood.Yeah, that's about right.
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As one who lived a tad east of Third Avenue intil a couple of years ago, I was shocked at the self-righteousness of the New York elite.
They come to accept their priveleges as a right. And look at you, in shock, when you suggest that there may be other standards by which to live life, apart from those of the Upper East Side.
I once had to endure a UES dentist who spent our entire consultation bagging the Upper West Side, where the teachers, Columbia academics, working artists and writers, and the socially mobile non-whites live in NYC. Most of his objections seemed to have been based on the fact that the UWS didn't cost enough. Pity my mouth was full of gauze, or I would have given him a piece of my mind.
And, Ms. Bushnell, a life without "appurtenances" and 400 pairs of shoes cna be a worthy one, perhaps even more worthy than yours.
Many thanks for your perspective, hb8.
I, too, was sickened by the privilege mentality. Though I shouldn't be surprised, having studied previous aristocracies.
But this might be a bit personal: part of my family's roots lie in Queens.
What makes a worthy life? 400 pairs of shoes? Probably not.
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