Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
        
                Rachel Sherman
        
                Last annotated on Thursday November 16, 2017
        
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            INTRODUCTION
                
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            large prewar apartment
                
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            second home
                
        
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            children attend a prestigious private school.
                
        
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            part-time personal assistant as well as a nanny-housekeeper and occasionally a personal chef.
                
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            travel in business class,
                
        
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            Scott worked in finance
                
        
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            supports nonprofits,
                
        
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            an active role on the board of his children’s school.
                
        
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            works for pay only occasionally,
                
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            it’s something to hide.’”
                
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            he became a leftist
                
        
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            a “secret rich guy”
                
        
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            abuses of workers’ rights.
                
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            feeling uncomfortable having married into wealth.
                
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            she had trouble spending only on herself,
                
        
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            especially aware of those who had less.
                
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            the desire to work.
                
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            feelings about their living space.
                
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            they believed that each of their children should have his or her own room.
                
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            so uncomfortable with the apartment
                
        
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            when I come [home], I feel like, ‘This isn’t me.’
                
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            The conflict that ensued was, as Olivia described it, “traumatizing,” destabilizing their marriage,
                
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            struggle was also partly about the visibility of their wealth,
                
        
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            discomfort
                
        
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            standing out
                
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            opulence of her home vis-à-vis those of their peers and friends, whom she described as “normal.”
                
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            awkwardness
                
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            even having kids’ friends over, there’s always this, like, inner hurdle that I have to get over.”
                
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            Not surprisingly, neither invited me to their home;
                
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            how to set a limit on spending
                
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            Scott said it had taken them nearly two years to buy an air conditioner
                
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            we do normal-Joe everyday stuff. We ride the trains. You know, for some reason it’s important to us to feel that way.”
                
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            annual spending had reached $800,000,
                
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            fifty affluent and wealthy New York
                
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            wanted to know how privileged New Yorkers made choices about consumption and lifestyle—that
                
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            What counted as “real” needs versus “luxuries”?
                
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            how people who were benefitting from rising economic inequality experienced their own social advantages.
                
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            affect the life choices
                
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            had struggled over these decisions.
                
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            how much money it was acceptable to spend, and on what.
                
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            Was it okay to spend a thousand dollars on a dress? Two thousand on a purse? Half a million on a home renovation?
                
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            what kind of people they would be
                
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            When a stay-at-home mother paid for a lot of babysitting, for example, was she “a snob”?
                
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            Did a couple with tens of millions in assets have to live with a sofa they hated because it felt “wasteful” to change it?
                
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            my interviewees criticized excess and self-indulgence while praising prudence
                
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            How could these affluent parents give their children high-quality (usually private) education and other advantages without spoiling them?
                
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            How could those who did not earn money be recognized for contributing to their households?
                
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            trouble talking about money and were conflicted about spending it.
                
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            how to be both wealthy and morally worthy,
                
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            CLASS INEQUALITIES AND IMAGINARIES IN THE UNITED STATES
                
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            United States imagines itself as egalitarian.
                
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            “American Dream” narrative
                
        
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            taboo on explicit conversations about class and money,
                
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            We do talk often about one class, of course: the “middle class.”
                
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            Radical movements were decimated by anticommunist ideology
                
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            international competition, outsourcing and deindustrialization, employer attacks on unions,
                
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            neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, technological innovation,
                
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            decline of both manufacturing jobs and union strength,
                
        
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            welfare state has lost power and the social safety net has weakened.
                
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            Tax policy
                
        
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            dramatic increase in economic inequality
                
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            the top 1 percent
                
        
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            CEO compensation
                
        
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            Americans without college degrees have seen their incomes stagnate since the 1970s.
                
        
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            The number of middle-wage jobs, such as those of bus drivers and retail clerks, has stagnated relative to others as job growth has occurred mostly at the top and the bottom of the wage scale.
                
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            The morally worthy middle class is also symbolically attached to the “Protestant ethic,” the idea that hard work and prudent consumption form the moral bedrock of American society.
                
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            both the rich and the poor are often represented as lacking the basic values of hard work and prudence.
                
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            Wealthy people have likewise been cast as both lazy and profligate, at least since 1899, when critical economist Thorstein Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class,
                
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            “conspicuous consumption.”
                
        
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            morally suspect in their materialism.
                
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            Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,
                
        
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            Roaring Twenties.
                
        
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            Tabloid magazines trumpet the details of celebrities’
                
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            buy gold-plated Apple watches for their dogs.
                
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            morally deficient in terms of personality and behavior. They are snobby, greedy, rude, braggy, and self-absorbed.
                
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            more unethical, more narcissistic, less generous, more isolated, and generally less “pro-social” than other people.
                
        
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            entitled
                
        
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            “the rich are different from you and me.”
                
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            represented as exotic,
                
        
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            male entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs.
                
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            good rich people are also often seen as minimalist consumers.
                
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            (think of Jobs’s black mock turtleneck or Mark Zuckerberg’s gray sweatshirt).
                
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            their significant philanthropic enterprises
                
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            Possessing a down-to-earth affect is another plus;
                
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            euphemisms such as “comfortable,” “fortunate,”
                
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            Because Clinton pays taxes and works hard—despite her income of well over $100 million over the previous several years—she is not “really” rich.
                
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            In 2011 the Occupy movement’s critique of “the 1 percent”
                
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            Thomas Piketty’s 700-page book
                
        
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            The language of class, especially the “working class,” appeared in political discourse
                
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            INVESTIGATING AFFLUENCE
                
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            Although images of the wealthy proliferate in the media, we know very little
                
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            difficulty of gaining access to wealthy people.
                
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            privilege through social closure in elite clubs
                
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            skeptical of allusions to hard work,
                
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            “the psychic landscape of social class,” has focused mainly on poor or working-class people or on the middle class.
                
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            The postwar opening of higher education,
                
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            Globalization has also both helped create a more diverse upper class
                
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            the rise of this belief in meritocracy
                
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            New York’s levels of residential segregation by income as well as race are also among the highest in the nation.
                
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            two or three children,
                
        
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            under 10 years
                
        
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            from $250,000 to over $10 million;
                
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            $80,000 to over $50 million.
                
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            median household income of the sample was about $625,000,
                
        
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            median net worth was $3.25 million
                
        
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            they believe in diversity, openness, and meritocracy rather than status based on birth.
                
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            All were college-educated, nearly exclusively in elite institutions.
                
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            First, they had high levels of cultural capital. They were worldly and culturally curious. They enjoyed the arts and liked to travel; most said they valued experience more than material goods.
                
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            they were politically liberal
                
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            although a few located themselves to the left of the Democratic Party.
                
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            many were economically conservative even if they voted Democratic.
                
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            not especially religious.
                
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            had been raised Catholic or Protestant;
                
        
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            Jewish;
                
        
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            open kitchens, often outfitted with white Carrara marble or handmade tiles; at handcrafted dining tables;
                
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            bathrooms with soaking tubs or steam showers,
                
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            living rooms decorated in palettes of gold or white,
                
        
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            bedrooms with expansive views of the city or the river,
                
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            brightly decorated children’s playrooms.
                
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            how customized these homes were and how deeply these homebuyers and renovators had thought
                
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            whether to have a separate dining room, whether their kids needed their own rooms or bathrooms, whether a stay-at-home mother needed an office.
                
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            where their children would go to school, and where they spent time on the weekends.
                
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            customize their homes aesthetically,
                
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            express their individual styles
                
        
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            bought their homes outright or carried very small mortgages.
                
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            a third of these families owned or were actively shopping for second homes
                
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            had slightly older children,
                
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            those with younger children rented summer or weekend houses or used those of family members,
                
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            about 90 percent had done significant renovation
                
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            Most children attended private schools, especially after sixth grade.
                
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            women usually had primary responsibility for the households,
                
        
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            extensive “consumption work,”
                
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            supervising and communicating with paid workers.
                
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            housecleaner;
                
        
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            hired nannies or babysitters on a regular basis
                
        
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            professional chefs, and personal assistants
                
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            financial advisors, architects, interior designers, real estate brokers,
                
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            they facilitate their clients’ consumption choices;
                
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            TALKING (OR NOT) ABOUT MONEY
                
        
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            cultural taboo against discussing money and class,
                
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            more private than sex,”
                
        
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            “No one’s ever asked me that, honestly.…
                
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            the strong sense from many people that they were underreporting
                
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            Despite this discomfort, many of the people I interviewed also acknowledged that they thought about money and lifestyle issues constantly
                
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            Others admitted speculating about what their friends and neighbors earned and sometimes judging friends and family members for certain kinds of spending.
                
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            THE ANXIETIES OF AFFLUENCE
                
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            comfortable with their class privilege.
                
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            they saw themselves as pillars of that community, publicly carrying out charitable works
                
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            community participation as an attempt to justify their privilege,
                
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            these women saw themselves as “being better than other people,” expressing “a sense of moral, as well as social, superiority.”
                
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            I was surprised at how many conflicts they expressed about spending.
                
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            some of those I interviewed tended not even to think of themselves as socially advantaged
                
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            “upward-oriented,”
                
        
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            explicitly indicated that they had some kind of moral concern about having wealth.
                
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            wanted to avoid showing their wealth to those with less.
                
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            money didn’t influence how they thought about other people.
                
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            silencing and obscuring their own privilege,
                
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            a kind of “blindness”
                
        
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            they struggled with themselves over the question of how to be worthy
                
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            good people work hard.
                
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            prudent consumers.
                
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            become less prominent
                
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            they described their desires and needs as basic
                
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            they “could live without” their advantages
                
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            cast themselves as “normal” people rather than “rich”
                
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            “give back”—more
                
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            “I don’t think we feel entitled to it.”
                
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            They clash over what kinds of needs are legitimate,
                
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            want to pass these behaviors, feelings, and values on to their children.
                
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            Parents want to raise nonmaterialistic, hard-working, nice people
                
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            they are always engaged in a competitive struggle for status or distinction,
                
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            they are complacent about their privilege.
                
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            desire to be moral actors.
                
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            notions of what it means to be legitimately privileged.
                
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            judging “bad” wealthy people means “good” wealthy people can also exist.
                
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            it becomes hard to articulate a distributional critique rather than a behavioral one:
                
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            regardless of how nice or hardworking or charitable they are.
                
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            VARIETIES OF EXPERIENCE
                
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            Inheritors talked more about experiencing discomfort
                
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            A NOTE ON JUDGMENT
                
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            that rich people are unpleasant, greedy, competitive consumers.
                
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