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

He makes 1.2 million dollars a year.
He’s unhappy because his work feels meaningless.
He can’t take a pay cut because he feels locked into the lifestyle.

He's one of America's many wealthy elite who are miserable with their lives. https://t.co/W0ZEE9VAol pic.twitter.com/0sOvUrHXLe

— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) February 22, 2019

he's not wrong

Pobrecito

in that his work is likely meaningless and he's made stupid decisions that lock him into massive monthly payments

i wonder how it feels at the tippy top of maslow's hierarchy

squirm, finance worm!!! squirm!!!!!

Man, if he was normal guy rich - like 175k/yr - I might feel a smidgeon or compassion. But that fucker earns more than six times that, so he can eat butts.

One classmate described having to invest $5 million a day — which didn’t sound terrible, until he explained that if he put only $4 million to work on Monday, he had to scramble to place $6 million on Tuesday, and his co-workers were constantly undermining one another in search of the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work, done among people he didn’t particularly like. He earned about $1.2 million a year and hated going to the office.

“I feel like I’m wasting my life,” he told me. “When I die, is anyone going to care that I earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels totally meaningless.” He recognized the incredible privilege of his pay and status, but his anguish seemed genuine. “If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says,” he told me. There’s no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good.

This is someone who might benefit from effective altruism. Why not give most of your salary away if that's how you feel?

he can't afford to -- he can't even afford to make $600K at a job he might like better -- because he's 'locked into a lifestyle' or something

locked in the turret at the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs ;_;

he should let down his hair. but then he'd have to grow out it first i guess. life is hard!

real answer is take a year and rework your finances in your spare time, work for two years past that and then retire. honestly, if you told me i had to work a job that would make me miserable for the next three years but then I could be financially stable enough to own a house, raise a family and live fairly humbly, i would take that offer 7 days a week.

8 days a week if you had given me that option in my thirties!

A good guillotining would solve all his problems IMO

He should be “locked into” a guillotine imo https://t.co/BPpuU07cX5

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) February 23, 2019

i bet his flesh would be very nutritional

this is from a few weeks ago

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/2l0p221I3W380k2X2k0Y/IMG_9102.jpg

DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE

lmao wtf

Saying you are "locked in" to a lifestyle is just a way of saying "I don't want to give up my lifestyle" while avoiding the sense of personal responsibility that "I don't want" entails.

kinda how i'm feeling about listening to michael jackson music right now tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1oha8aX4AIGPGh.jpg:small

Signed, Aghast Lucrezia

Lucrezia would be a good name for a ghast in a fantasy novel.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons

http://i.imgur.com/HCY9393.png

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/gentrification-one-percent-manhattan.html

omg, this line made me want to vomit

Every morning at 8 o’clock sharp, the jackhammering begins. All day long the drilling and banging and beeping go on. Only on weekends and the holidays of the politically potent — Christmas and Rosh Hashana, for example, but not Martin Luther King’s Birthday — does it cease. It was supposed to end last December, then in February, then this month. Now, they say, it could last all summer.

this is full of gems. good find.

Debby Brown, who has lived on the block for 50 years. Ms. Brown says her dog, Dorian Gray, has been prescribed a tranquilizer because of the noise.

Ms. Beauvoir is a Haitian-American jazz singer. She’s married to Pierre Bastid, a 64-year-old Moroccan-born Frenchman who made a fortune in energy, and recently dabbled in Alpine hotels, restaurants and pharmaceuticals. He has also been a trustee at Juilliard, and has endowed a scholarship there for struggling jazz musicians. In 2015, the couple, who live primarily in Brussels, helped produce “Living on Love,” Renée Fleming’s short-lived Broadway debut.

Ms. Beauvoir has described herself as a mambo, or voodoo priestess

Man, I really don't have neighbors like this in queens

I know that violinist! Bummer that ran her outta there.

The one pcters are in our midst more than we know, they just are good at dressing down

just to back up a sec, is the writer trying to imply that Martin Luther King's bday is an African American holiday, the way Christmas is Christian and Rosh Hashana is Jewish? Because, if so, oof.

they're implying that white christians and jews have influence that african americans don't i think

it's kind of an insane juxtaposition though

yeah I got it but it's kinda o_O, especially since MLK day is not an african american holiday

i mean yes it does read like martin luther king's birthday is a holiday in the african american religion but i don't think that's the intention

Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress accused of being a society scammer, was found guilty. There is an Instagram account devoted to her style in court. Our chief fashion critic @VVFriedman explains why courtroom fashion actually matters. https://t.co/oskPoRuiXF

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2019

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i pasted in a url from their link-shortener, you goon

This is just an editing issue, but am I wrong that this should be "coffeeshop talk"? I feel like I'm going crazy.

The raisin industry runs on what Mr. Overly calls “coffee shoptalk,” which is to say, gossip.

Mr. Overly does not believe that Mr. Barserian was behind the threats; only that he knew they had been made. “Did Kalem know?” he said. “I would presume that he would because of, he knows everybody, right? And the coffee shoptalk will get that stuff out there. So I would assume that he’d heard about it. But I can’t verify that.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/style/sun-maid-raisin-industry.html

diff between

coffee shoptalk
raisin shoptalk
coffeeshop talk
coffeeshop shoptalk

lockerroom raisins

Talk among yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Coffee shoptalk is neither a form of shoptalk nor an activity that involves drinking coffee, discuss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/travel/Nobu-Ryokan-Malibu.html

"A ryokan in name only"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.html
immensely lame

On Nov. 16, 1987, when the 20-year-old “Cosby Show” star Lisa Bonet eloped with the singer Lenny Kravitz, it was black Gen X point zero for rule breaking, style making and boundaries shaking.

It's cold outside and my hands are dry
Skin is cracked and I realize
That I hate the sound of guitars
A thousand grudging young millionaires
Forcing silence sucking sound
Forced into this conversation

So I say shine let your planets collide
This is the darkening down of my mind
We could be making it oiling like crime
We could be making it staking last dimes
If you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

Now if you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

The torch is passed it's yours to return
Lay at their feet now use it to burn
For marketing the use of the word generation
A false alliance of money persuading
Forcing silence sound sucking
Forced into this conversation

Now if you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html

Gratifying review

I find Giridharadas's public persona irritating about 85% of the time but this is exactly the context in which I'm into it.