bkornblith t1_j7km73q wrote on February 7, 2023 at 2:09 PM

Hot take here but the people that are destroying the middle class are not making between 100k and 500k… the people who are destroying the middle class are making millions. As much as I find it laughable that people making 300k are complaining about how hard it is… raising multiple kids in NYC is stupidly expensive at almost all income levels. We should be reforming the tax code, and getting good legislation through so that basics are affordable for all of us. The real enemy is the .01%, not the 1%. They are far closer to us than they are to billionaires and we need to remember that.

PatrickMaloney1 t1_j7nnqw9 wrote on February 8, 2023 at 2:34 AM

I agree. Buried somewhere deep in this article is a story about inequality, cost of housing in NYC, lifestyle creep, etc, but the writer makes the choice to focus it on the emotional toll of a very specific set of elite women. Their story is valid and an interesting but the tone of this article, in my opinion, presumptuously assumes that there is something universal about their experience and I say that as someone who is sort of connected to the Fleishman world.

There was probably something universally relatable about Libby and Rachel, but they were fictional characters, designed to be so. These people, not so much.