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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that the negative reaction here is way overblown. The essay does give me a touch of the ick, but so do about half the posts on this forum. It really just reads like an earnest journal entry that probably should have stayed in the journal.[/quote]

Clearly these posters don’t realize a world that they are clearly really not part of. You have to be aware to realize what she’s talking about and I think many are not aware. There is “wealthy” and then there is wealthy combined with elite clubs, summering at the same places, knowing all of the same people at all travel destinations. It can be polarizing even to “wealthy” people. That is what she is talking about. It’s a culture And you can be “rich” technically and still come in to this kind of Uber wealth world and realize wow it’s on a whole different level than you could’ve ever imagined. Clearly you people trashing her are not part of that world so you don’t even know what you’re missing out on.[/quote]

I’m not part of that world but went to boarding school, so I have an idea of what she’s talking about. The criticism is that her piece reads as “woe is me, it’s so hard to be privileged,” which is incredibly tone deaf. And you sound like you could be your mom with your last line there. The whole point of the criticism is that she is incredibly privileged and has the life that others can only dream of and yet still finds a way to turn that into some sort of hardship. [/quote]

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