All the Cambridge girls made fun of him cuz his house was only worth half a million even though he coached at a school worth forty billion and overrun with the hyper-rich. “He can’t even afford to live in Cambridge,” smirked the walking-distance-to-Harvard crowd; and he was a fencing coach, too, which should have meant serious money but in his case didn’t.
Economists tell us that you’re only as rich as the people around you – if they’re living way over your head, it doesn’t matter whether objectively you’re doing okay. You feel like shit. So who can blame him for trading his insider knowledge of Harvard admissions for big money? His life has been a living hell, honey.
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June 19th, 2019 at 10:03PM
“All the Cambridge girls made fun of him cuz his house was only worth half a million…”
But…but…that is clearly impossible. I have been assured that the vast majority of Harvard students are Progressives, strongly committed to Equality.
And the women, especially, surely eschew the clawing for competitive position which is so interlinked with Toxic Masculinity.