I suppose she's right, but not in a cutesy way - I have friends living paycheck to paycheck who push themselves to near-bankruptcy with loans to host these ridiculously elaborate kids' parties. More aspirationally wealthy activities to keep families struggling, yay!
One of the ways the rich hurts the rest of us is by setting impossible standards for consumption. You might have a modest but reasonable comfortable lifestyle with your basic needs secured and access to some luxuries but seeing other people do impossible shit like this makes you feel insufficient and unhappy with what you have.
The rich are making the rest of us feel miserable by making us feel poor even when we're not and by making us feel like we don't do "enough".
All the way up to that bouncing castle I kept trying to give them copouts - "maybe they made the cookies themselves and they're really into baking. I know my cousin made macarons for her birthday and they're pretty difficult" / "The plates probably aren't super expensive, they're probably plastic" / "Okay the tables are very impressive, did they borrow them from a super fancy kindergarten a friend works at maybe?"
Then I saw the custom logo on the bouncing castle
"I posted this as inspo for other parents" yeah I'm sure a custom color/lettering bouncy castle is very "inspiring" to others.
I suppose she's right, but not in a cutesy way - I have friends living paycheck to paycheck who push themselves to near-bankruptcy with loans to host these ridiculously elaborate kids' parties. More aspirationally wealthy activities to keep families struggling, yay!
One of the ways the rich hurts the rest of us is by setting impossible standards for consumption. You might have a modest but reasonable comfortable lifestyle with your basic needs secured and access to some luxuries but seeing other people do impossible shit like this makes you feel insufficient and unhappy with what you have.
The rich are making the rest of us feel miserable by making us feel poor even when we're not and by making us feel like we don't do "enough".
All the way up to that bouncing castle I kept trying to give them copouts - "maybe they made the cookies themselves and they're really into baking. I know my cousin made macarons for her birthday and they're pretty difficult" / "The plates probably aren't super expensive, they're probably plastic" / "Okay the tables are very impressive, did they borrow them from a super fancy kindergarten a friend works at maybe?"
Then I saw the custom logo on the bouncing castle