And I think she brings out an interesting point that she also doesn’t consider.
While the rich may take the poor for granted, ie not thank them, not understand their stresses, the problems they face, the job issues facing them and such,
she forgets not everyone better off was always that way, and may understand that life and their issues,
and further, the poor have little understanding of the stresses of a ceo, of an analyst, of a middle manager who can be fired pretty easy if things go south, or can be outsourced or replaced by a temp. Have a mortgage hanging over their head. Car payments. College payments. Health payments. These are people expected to pay for stuff. They aren’t poor enough to be written off because they have nothing. They have something to lose.
Just about every tier has stressers and their own pressures. She has the idea that it’s just so much easier, and in some ways it is, but more is expected too. More responsibilities and more demands. They can’t sit around doing nothing, smoking and drinking and eating junk food. They have to be planning long term.
Excellent points and all of them are well founded.
I do know that she doesn’t seem to understand that the ‘rich’ are not spending 24/7 watching television and enjoying free time and living like French aristocrats. They’re out hustling and I do believe she forgets that in some ways, it’s stressful to delay gratification, what would seem like a moment of relief and enjoyment.