What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get - The Atlantic
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People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 11:39 R ecently, I accidentally overdrew my checking account. That hadn’t happened to me in years—the last time was in 2008, when I was running a small business with no safety net in the middle of a financial crisis. Back then, an overdrawn account meant eating canned soup and borrowing cash from friends only slightly better off than me. This time, I didn’t need to worry—I was able to move money from a different account. And yet all the old feelings—heart palpitations, the seizure of reason in my brain—came right back again. I have one of those wearable devices that
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