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A Boring Dystopia
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Yeah, the turn that the Trustifarians take is always so fast. Like you can not see them for a few weeks and suddenly the locks are gone, toes confined to shoes, and they're already clamoring for trappings as a totem of having forsaken their "sordid past." All the whiplash from suddenly realizing that your paths in life end in the same few places, simply because your ideals force others to push you away.
It's really not too dissimilar from Flat Earthers - outrageous ideas that at first put you in a fun and weird community, but long term are the thing that makes everyone your enemy. Though, since Flat Earthers don't specifically reject economic methods are part of their idealism, they can fare well for longer it seems. Though I don't have data to back that up.
pretty much. they cosplay at being working-class/poor because it makes them feel like they aren't rich douchebags, and once it gets old/difficult/mom and dad get mad, they 'grow up' and stop doing it.
I am in my 40s and I meet a lot of trustafians. they get so ANGRY when they realize I am not like them and I'm some 'loser' who made my own way up in life with hard work and didn't spend my 20s partying and traveling and working low-income jobs because it was 'authentic'. i had a low income job because it was the only one I could get until I had enough experience to get a better paying job.
I hear you on this. I was homeless as a kid, and in college I had a friend who I just didn't understand was wealthy, as I hadn't learned the subtle social cues outside of a small town context. I was sort of still processing the fact that yes, living for years in the back of a store and not a house was not the experience that other people had, and it is defined as being homeless. Though certainly not as bad as living out of a car or on the streets. "Homeless lite" maybe? Anyway, I told her this one day and she immediately came back with "Oh! Me too! We lived in a hotel for 3 months while looking for a house to buy!" Even trying to get a bit deeper....nope. Steamrolled into her Eloise story.
A year or so later, another friend got it out of her that she, indeed, did have a "small" trust fund for college. To her credit, she wasn't a shitbag at least. Meant well, but just zero wherewithal about the discrepancy between paying daily to live somewhere and making up a bed every night of camper seat cushions and a sleeping bag