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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Debt for an MFA is insane. But here's the thing, if everyone else is acting as though they don't have much money either, you don't realize how insane it is until after you're stuck in a low-paying career path. I have friends who are .001 percenters, from a famous family with buckets of money, and they will complain to me about their budget woes or brag about the Costco food they served at their kids' birthday party. Then it's spring break in St. Moritz or the VIP Disney tour. Sorry, friend, we're not in the same boat.

There are so many people in DC like this - they can afford to pursue policy careers based on interest rather than money because there's a trust fund or a master-of-the-universe spouse. [b]I can't tell you the number of colleagues at my left-leaning nonprofit whose kids are Sidwell/Maret/GDS and who live in $2m houses. [/b]They're great smart people, but sometimes I want to smack them.[/quote]

The thing is, this isn't harmless.  I worked in public policy and I remember vividly the non-profit trust fund baby who was explaining to me that it was a good thing to require anyone who sells a home to spend up to $100,000 to upgrade the energy efficiency of the house.   They pointed out that this was just a fraction of the total value of a house.  They seemed stunned -- and incredulous -- when I told them that there are large portions of the United States where you can buy an entire house for less than $100,000. These are the people in DC who are making policy for the rest of us.  (This was about ten years ago, and these same ideas is now popping up in the "Green New Deal.")

[b]These are people who talk to their friends about how they could never live in "Flyover Country" because they want to live in a "diverse" area.  What they really mean is that they want to live around rich people of all races and nationalities.  [/quote][/b]

Oh yes^^ Absolutely[/quote]

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