even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

On the upside the people doing the reviewing, the people being reviewed and the people trusting hashtags for relationship advice all clearly deserve each other.

http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo2-e1385384598732.jpg

that's kind of sweet. maybe it's just because I think she's cuet.

44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.

I get up 3 hrs before sometimes bcz 1) I am a slow riser and 2) every successive apartment I can afford is further away from my job.

I wake up 3 hours before work because my toddler wakes up 3 hours before work

i wake up 3 hours before work because i am slow and i ride my bike 10 miles to work and i am a teacher so if i am late everybody leaves

I work in my sleep

*starts waking up 3 hours before he needs to be at Wal-Mart job*
*does aerobic exercise four times a week*
"Ok, so how long does this take before I get rich?"

i wake up three hours before work because im a breakdancing policeman

seems like the true measure of success is that top 10 or 20% of the wealthy people who get to do all of the poor people stuff while staying wealthy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/social-networking-App-allows-women-to-rate-men.html?pagewanted=all

― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

photo on this is perfectly hilarious

Ms. Chong founded Lulu with a friend, Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky.

And this sentence is known as Clunky.

Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi

Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a “safe core.”

Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.

they're gonna need some skynet robots if they want to keep ruling us from inside their safe cores

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952

Really dunno where to put this

This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?

here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony

real resigned view of education dere

Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.

agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds

I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.

They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.

the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling

Forgot to tell you I went back in time to when I was 16 to write that article.

Insistence that WASP rule resulted in a nobler, less corrupt and self-interested society is breathtakingly myopic. Yes, when one group dominated, they did indeed fashion of the nation a fine playground for themselves. I hardly think it's coincidence that the decline of American WASPocracy maps so comfortably onto the rise and consequences of the civil rights era. I mean, sure — the wealthy society WASPs I know do tend to be liberal progressives, heavily involved in community and charitable work, tightly bound by puritan propriety, and averse to flagrant displays of power or wealth. At the same time often racist, smug, exclusionary, cruelly blind to the concerns of anyone not in their circle, etc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/realestate/a-white-glove-state-of-mind.html

Some prime quid/ag holiday reading right here

New hires take a weeklong course to learn how to color-code residents based on their personality type. A red-coded resident needs to be validated and heard, whereas a blue resident simply wants the facts.

'is he cool?'

I feel like that's not only a class thing but also a generational class thing, with the increasing mentality of "service" as a "product"

Yeah the baseball chitchat with the help is very old-school noblesse oblige.

where a three-bedroom rental apartment was recently listed for $22,995 a month

What?????

oh, it's been a while

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/as-shop-owner-woman-sees-troubling-sides-of-herself.html?_r=0

that's a gem

I can't even read past that fucked-up lede about emotional landscapes.

sort of reminds me of the big firm lawyers who complain about how they'll never be "truly rich" like their clients

Silby otm

this is classic:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/upper-east-side-residents-feel-spurned-after-plow-delay/

fwiw, the city claims this was partly false perception due to busted gps not updating the plownyc website. As for the traffic excuse, I work in the area and can attest that it was complete gridlock for hours.

http://observer.com/2014/01/let-them-eat-kale/

nice crossover with "shit that looks like an onion article" on that one

fuck, that observer piece is so long and says so little

Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews

A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been condemned for "ghastly and disgraceful" comments after he compared criticism of America's rich to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Tom Perkins, 66, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which was published, in which he likened the Occupy movement to Kristallnacht, the infamous pogrom of Nov 9-10, 1938

check the occupy wall street thread for deets on his porn novel

Oh good I was going to link that article here. Wow.

quiddities and auchwitzes of the ruling class

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-myth-of-sex-drugs-and-money-on-wall-street-2014-02-18?link=MW_story_featstor

amazing find

I love that we are supposed to simultaneously feel sorry for them because money turns out to not make them happy AND because they make less money than they used to!

Unhappy rich people should use some of their money to pay off my student loans. It will make us all feel good!

cosign ^

You know what, I do feel sorry for people with that kind of warped worldview, in a way. They are wounded people.

yeah they're somewhere near the top of my list