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

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ultimate-staycation-a-second-home-in-the-same-city-1464875847

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/fashion/mens-style/van-life-nomad.html

Please

this guy is the worst
http://thevanual.com/

"With a Dwell-inspired sense of design and help from his father, he made it a rad home on wheels."

The Staycation article really brings out my inner Maoist.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world

amazing - something relatively funny in the new yorker??

relatively is the key word there

yes the sentence doesn't actually hold without it

still tho

ah this one is so perfect

http://nypost.com/2015/04/08/escalades-hamptons-homes-and-much-more-the-rise-of-the-diva-nanny/

#uppitynanny

perfect, even down to the several-years-old tweets embedded in a 'trend' story

That’s on top of pay that averages $15.79 per hour, according to the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013. The majority of nannies also received raises, bonuses and an average of 19 paid days off each year, with only 15 percent of employees paid on the books, the report also says.

LOL wait, thats less than minimum wage here, and everyone gets at least 20 days a year annual leave.

$15.79/hour for an 8 hour day is an annual salary of $32,843.

“It felt like we were dealing with the Mafia,” recalls Danielle. “She knew we needed her more than she needed us.”

32k a year for the help, heavens however will we afford oberlin for all the kids

I liked the part about the poor New Jersey entrepreneur who owed her nanny $7K

the servant problem rears its ugly head once more

Everyone should get 18 years of paid parental leave for having a child imo

^upvoted

Free market economics is a bitch when you're on the demand side, eh wall streeters?

the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013

^^^ underrated straight-to-video anne hathaway movies i have owned

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html?_r=0

http://postgradproblems.com/this-hipster-marriage-announcement-from-the-new-york-times-is-the-most-insufferable-yet/

That response is also problematic though

i don't actually have a problem with the sound of music guy wedding! they seem nice. maybe you could read it as wes anderson twee or whatever but if maria von trapp was your great grandmother you are certainly allowed to be as twee as you want to be. plus, wow, what a place to have a wedding.

plus, dorky bookworm theology student does not a hipster make. more hipsters should pick up a book.

Yeah, honestly, they don't sound like hipsters. They sound like old-fashioned old-money theology students. Pretty sure opera and musicals haven't become hipster-bait yet (I quite like both, fwiw). I mean, I find it a bit weird that you'd want a big NY Times wedding article, and the name-dropping of brands is also suspect, but otherwise, eh. I'm sure that they'd annoy me in person but it's nice that people who have things in common have found each other.

I knew this was going to get posted here but dammit I thought these guys were kind of great.

Everything about that guy screams textbook old money WASP, I am baffled at "hipster" being used here.

Sound of Music, growing up on the Vineyard, latin education, theology grad school, even the bright orange laces in dress shoes -- that's all WASP stuff.

not to mention friends with the stilted speech of characters in a 1950s novel set at Princeton

You milquetoast lovers! I don't care if the guy is a hipster, I'm here to mock the ruling class in any guise

Von Trapps aren't old money WASPs!!

they were fierce nazi-smashing superheroes!

I didn't say the Von Trapps were WASPs (???)

they don't mention their parental pedigree in that thing. maybe that's in the regular wedding announcement.

Everything about that guy screams textbook old money WASP

Isn't that calling someone a WASP, or am I misreading you?

I've been to the Trapp family lodge in Stowe. The actual Maria is buried there. There's an apple tree growing right next to her grave and I picked an apple from it (this was the first week of October, ridiculous foliage everywhere) and it honestly was the most incredible apple I may have ever eaten.

Isn't that calling someone a WASP, or am I misreading you?

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:13 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, IDK, I figured that's only 1/4 of his family, his name is Peters, and it said he was interested in "Christianity." But now I see they had a Catholic priest at the wedding so maybe not.

I didn't even think this guy seemed old-money WASPy. He seemed like a bookish weirdo. I LOVE bookish weirdos.

Does anyone not either wealthy or a low-wage worker grow up on Martha's Vineyard?

grapes?

They can cook (without the help) and enjoy Taylor Swift too. Rich people - they're just like us.

there are lots of working class people on martha's vineyard. who aren't rich. and teachers, town workers, hospital workers, etc. who aren't rich. a lot of people rent there and remain semi-poor and employed just because they like it there. tons of paycheck to paycheck people. and people who just do seasonal work and save up for the winter. most of the low-wage people are Brazilian. in the old days college kids did the work that the Brazilians do now.

there is a lot of stress on that island. people who love it there or who grew up there but who have a hard time making it. my dad was looking at the paper one day when we lived on the island and said: huh, there sure are a lot of AA meetings here...

theology grad student couple are cute as hell

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/your-money/investing-in-an-emotional-trust-fund-for-your-children.html

None of this is really bad advice. It's more the terms in which it's couched. How to raise your kids: think of it like a trust fund!