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.