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The part about the upper middle class (myself included) being detached from reality is spot on.

You have no need to worry about money other than the desire to upgrade status symbols. You have no real power or path to power, so you don’t understand that either. You’re floating blissfully in the middle reading about mushroom foraging while the poor get poorer and the elite siphon even more wealth and power.



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