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

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Dear Diary:
I accompanied my friend Judy to an auto body shop in the Bronx to help her retrieve her property from her car, which was totaled when she hit a deer upstate.
We readily accepted the mechanic’s kind offer to drive us to the subway station with our heavy bags.
Before entering the subway, we offered Judy’s long-handled snow-removal brush, which she no longer needed, to a man at a corner fruit stand. He took it happily and offered two apples in return.
On the ride back to Manhattan, Judy gave one of the apples to a homeless woman; she too accepted with gratitude.
An unfortunate event for a deer resulted in thoughtful deeds that were satisfying to several people.

ha ha this sounds like someone at their bar mitzvah talking about how much they learned from volunteering at the food bank for two hours

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/style/where-are-all-the-nannies-on-instagram.html

tbh, I don't know if this is thread-qualified, my eye started twitching after the third paragraph

It's almost like an inverted quid-ag, ostensibly social justice and wealth inequality concerned, but still subtly from the perspective of the wealthy (framed as "why aren't they on rich people's instagrams" as opposed to like "the hidden labor that makes wealthy lifestyles possible." )

One estimate shows wealthy couples in NYC need 90 million to keep their heads above water https://t.co/dlF6y9wlpT pic.twitter.com/RrSn4oS3Sg

— Finance Insider (@clusterstock) November 17, 2017

now they're just trolling

for $190 a lot of people would put their heads below water

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/money-diaries-where-millennial-women-go-to-judge-one-anothers-spending-habits

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/technology/silicon-valley-esalen-institute.html?_r=0

“There’s a dawning consciousness emerging in Silicon Valley as people recognize that their conventional success isn’t necessarily making the world a better place,” said Mr. Tauber, 34, a former Google product manager and start-up executive coach. “The C.E.O.s, inside they’re hurting. They can’t sleep at night.”

The C.E.O.s
inside they’re hurting

there's an app for that

There's a dawning consciousness emerging in Silicon Valley as CEOs recognize that they are shallow, clueless zealots, adrift in a world they do not understand except through the trivialities with which they've crammed their minds.

not nyt but hoo boy
http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/long-reads/5115-how-i-feel-now

bushwickdaily is generally a crushing thing to scroll through, just a delirious parade of gentrification boosterism with a sad veneer of hippitude. "feeling like some kind of bourgeois Brooklyn refugee" is particularly rich though. nice that the comments are going after him, i feel like 90% of the stuff on that site nobody even reads (which is good) or if they do nobody notices how fucked it is (which is bad).

agree with you on basically all points. what is "the nostalgia for now" called?

also not nyt (and not this year) but the terrible thing about the times is it could have been

this tweet reminds me of this class wall street journal image on “typical” family incomes pic.twitter.com/JexnSXOBxw

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) December 19, 2017

lol just your average single mom w two kids making a quarter of a million dollars

just your average retired couple with $130k of non-investment income

Is that dude wearing a scarf without a coat like rupert bear, or is it meant to be a jumper

Also lol for a uk reader these all look like court sketches of ppl

haha oh man i'd forgotten about that one. we've definitely clowned it before - i remember someone shedding a tear for sad dorothea lange portrait of the single parent living on $260,000 a year ($40,000 in deductions, $35,000 in investment income)

she looks like téa leoni in a movie that ends w her throwing away her ringing cell

Is it not a dude with a very disco look? Anyway w/e about that, just how long are the blond child's arms?

I think he's got a sweater tied around his neck, because that's a look that exists outside of 1980s preps vs nerds comedies.

https://www.gofundme.com/brooklyn-refugee-needs-home

Why do they all look so miserable?

This must have been posted before. Bill Koch's son Wyatt and his fashion label: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYZH4TsloS6/?taken-by=wyatt.ingraham

Almost can't believe it's real.

xp bcos they're in court

xxp You try living on poverty wages in the big city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/well/showering-morning-night.html

scraping the barrel here
just take a fucking shower

you clicked and shared
their work is done

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my friends

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html

How's about all the Fortune 500 CEOs who get paid $100,000 a day to go golfing with each other?

A Zero Mass Water system, which extracts moisture from the air and stores the water, at a home in Oakland, Calif.

turns out Luke Skywalker got his start moisture farming on the west coast

Juicero dude’s got a new scam!

“Just take a breath of air,” said Mr. Friesen, a professor of materials science at Arizona State University. “Take a deep breath. No matter how wealthy or poor you are, you can take a breath and own that air that you breathe. And yet water — the government brings it to you.”

~think abt it~

No matter how wealthy or poor you are, you can take a breath and own that air that you breathe.

NB: Become poor enough and you are much more likely to stop breathing.

not sure that this belongs here tbh but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh8CkaPkr4

actually i just got to the part where she buys a 2k Chanel bag, nevermind

bonus points of note:
she has named her aloe plants
backward shirt for some reason
the stool seats wrapped in crinoline
likes to wear louboutins around the apartment
"i can't look directly in the mirror without standing on my tiptoes... but i tell myself it's good exercise?"
the gallery of angry notes from the downstairs neighbor

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/tamar-adler-grub-street-diet.html

Eh that’s not bad at all. There’s a lot of food detail, but she’s a chef & food writer.

This is vomit-inducing: "My son is disappointed with me while I produce the elixir I need to have the spirit of a good Spoons player. I emerge onto the field of sport at around 7:05 with a quart-size Mason jar half-full of black tea and half-full of organic lactose-free whole milk and maple syrup. I am renewed."

I'm going to go out on a limb and say her bad writing makes her sound much more insufferable than she probably actually is

it certainly doesn't help but this is clearly someone who mistakes lifestyle for character

I ran into someone I try to avoid last week...my friend asked about her daughter, how she is liking college in the city, and she could only respond by going on about what a great neighborhood they put her in. She said Irving Place about six times inside of two minutes

Ugh w/ the mason jars already. As someone who stocks them at home for practical purposes—they are dirt cheap, interchangeable, and kid-proof—this trend has been a long hard slog.

It’s not like they’ve jacked up the price

It does not make sense to say “half full of one thing and half full of another thing and one more thing”