February 2012
38 posts
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I feel like I write these columns for women who are trying to do hard, great, risky things – and who are made to feel by those around them that they’re crazy, or trying too hard, or not playing along.
I’m here to tell you to either beat those people at everything, or just ignore them.
Then they can go to networking events and mouth the same stale platitudes and chit-chat to each other that they say all the time, because they have nothing to show for themselves but a lot of contacts in their phone and another year’s paycheck in exchange for another year’s job attendance. Unicorns say: fuck that.
” —Je Dziura. Bullish
How the Stinking Rich Ate the Economy →
theatlantic.com
“If a $100,000-a-year household thinks itself to be middle class,” the neoconservative writer Irving Kristol once wrote, “then it is middle class.” This sentiment is widely held, but it makes no mathematical sense. Any family whose income exceeds that of 90 percent of all other families cannot sensibly be called anything but rich. To believe otherwise would oblige you to judge your child mediocre when his teacher gives him an A.
