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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I am ignoring the sophomoric argument above. You described my family. Two PhDs whose house is full of books--everything from Journey to the West to Terry Pratchett. A friend of mine calls us "the literati." We talk a lot of politics, talk a lot about social justice, and what books we read. However, we are so broke (poor is systemic). It is what it is. We hope our kids also have rich intellectual lives and have a good education. That is what we can give them. I do want to distinguish that it isn't champagne tastes. I don't want anything from Van Cleef & Arpels. I don't care about your NYC or Paris shopping trip. Nor do I care about cars or the size of your house. I just don't care. This means I can't identify with a lot of the people in the DC suburbs. I literally got caught in a convo once about how Kia has a luxury car brand. It was not my thing. [/quote]

It is interesting that you associate money with shopping, cars or luxury jewelries. Money is much more than that. Money allowed me to take my kids to more than 50 countries around the world and experience different cultures not from books, but to have first hand experience. Money allowed me to send my kids to great private schools that also expand their horizons. For example, when they studied about Ancient Greece in middle school, the traveled to Greece and drove across the country for two weeks as part of their class work. Money allowed us to learn several languages (each family member speaks 4-5 languages). I don't buy jewelry either, even the cheaper ones, but I buy business class flight to Vienna to see Klimt's Kiss one more time even though I've seen it dozen of times before or flight to Amsterdam to see the latest exhibit or concert. Money allowed me not just talk about social justice but actually do something about it. I don't care about your talks because people like you they are just that, talk and no action. [/quote]

Money also made you insufferable [/quote]

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