This is what class rage feels like

[Anonymous]

I saw this article coming up as recommended after reading all the college bribe drama. Interesting. What do you think?

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/class-rage-anger-wealthy-rich-friends.html

[Anonymous]

I think people are living in a bubble, just like the church and other scandals that come out eventually that these things aren't happening and haven't happened for centuries. I don't get all the oh, I'm so shocked and think that blogger is using it to make money, just like everyone else. Lame article. This isn't anything new and will not be the first or last scandal that has been or will be covered up or forgotten about in a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. I feel for that woman because it's basically gas-lighting. Her financial situation is real. Those people isn't.

[Anonymous]

This is definitely how I feel when I find out people have significant parental help in the form of house down payments (or full purchase price), tuition, completed 529’s, free trips to Hawaii, etc. It’s all very hush hush because they want it to seem like they aren’t getting that much help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely how I feel when I find out people have significant parental help in the form of house down payments (or full purchase price), tuition, completed 529’s, free trips to Hawaii, etc. It’s all very hush hush because they want it to seem like they aren’t getting that much help.

We’re not hiding it. Nothing to hide or be ashamed of.

[Anonymous]

But SHE choice literally the lowest paying field there is! I applied for publishing jobs when I first moved to NYC after college, and the pay was astoundingly low -- lower than temping, lower than the nonprofit job I ended up taking. I think one of the hiring managers expressly told me that the jobs were INTENDED for people with parental help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely how I feel when I find out people have significant parental help in the form of house down payments (or full purchase price), tuition, completed 529’s, free trips to Hawaii, etc. It’s all very hush hush because they want it to seem like they aren’t getting that much help.

We’re not hiding it. Nothing to hide or be ashamed of.

You might not be. But plenty do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely how I feel when I find out people have significant parental help in the form of house down payments (or full purchase price), tuition, completed 529’s, free trips to Hawaii, etc. It’s all very hush hush because they want it to seem like they aren’t getting that much help.

We’re not hiding it. Nothing to hide or be ashamed of.

You might not be. But plenty do.

My MIL helps a lot and I don't hide it. Partly because I have gotten literally zero from my own parents since I was 18. But I don't feel sympathetic to the author, given that she deliberately chose not to build wealth (or even financial stability of any sort). My MIL can help us because she built up wealth from nothing by hustling.

[Anonymous]

Moved into our house. Street is full of same type houses. Meet a lady who is a SAHM (like me) and husband works very similar job to mine. BUT they belong to a CC, drive German cars, and did a $$$ reno on their kitchen. At first we were like ????

But it later came out that her grandparents paid for the house outright.

[Anonymous]

Oh please, she doesn't have to live in NYC to work there. She can live in a borough and not "spend all her money on rent." She will commute like millions of other people.

[Anonymous]

I feel for her, because in some ways I get how she can feel like the relationship wasn't quite what she thought it was. But at the same time, she sounds like she needs a bit of counseling to get past her feelings of inadequacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel for her, because in some ways I get how she can feel like the relationship wasn't quite what she thought it was. But at the same time, she sounds like she needs a bit of counseling to get past her feelings of inadequacy.

Also she never married which is another key to building wealth.

[Anonymous]

Parents purchasing homes for their children is not supposed to be common?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents purchasing homes for their children is not supposed to be common?

What? No, that is not common.

[Anonymous]

I get her point. She’s in an industry that doesn’t pay well; surrounded by upper middle class to downright rich people, as a single 40 year old.