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A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.
The gist: Someone at the bottom end of the 1% is closer to someone with no money at all than they are to someone at the top end of the 1% who has billions of dollars, yet the person at the bottom end of the 1% is still in the 1%, so too often tries to live like the guy with billions of dollars. The whole thing is simultaneously utterly asinine but also makes sense that idiots with more money than brains would try (and fail) to live like that.
I read the whole post but only watched the video, at 2X speed, until about halfway in, bailing at the start of the shill. The post itself is more humblebragging about how John Scalzi and his family mostly don't do all the stupid shit that 1%ers do.
The gist: Someone at the bottom end of the 1% is closer to someone with no money at all than they are to someone at the top end of the 1% who has billions of dollars, yet the person at the bottom end of the 1% is still in the 1%, so too often tries to live like the guy with billions of dollars. The whole thing is simultaneously utterly asinine but also makes sense that idiots with more money than brains would try (and fail) to live like that.
I read the whole post but only watched the video, at 2X speed, until about halfway in, bailing at the start of the shill. The post itself is more humblebragging about how John Scalzi and his family mostly don't do all the stupid shit that 1%ers do.
