Why Hearing About Young Rich People Makes Us So Upset

Lately, the air has been crackling with financial resentment. Tweets and articles about money—about, say, how Kylie Jenner is a self-made billionaire, or how two rich college graduates chose their expensive apartment in Kips Bay, or how one young woman lives in New York on an intern’s salary and a generous parental allowance—have extended themselves, like steel rods, into our atmosphere of extreme inequality.

Why Hearing About Young Rich People Makes Us So Upset
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July 24, 2018 at 03:47PM
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