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Goes hand in hand with the other article I saw about needing rich people to have to use public systems, instead of being able to pay to get around it. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder Where do we draw the line at how “rich” someone can get? questions
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hiring rotating casts of nannies so that there’s always one around (instead of just one to cover the workweek), private chefs, housekeepers, and even niche housework experts like laundresses, for those who find folding their own clothes to be beneath them.
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Pet care is getting even weirder than that. Beyond the routine daily dog walker, some city dwellers reportedly send their dogs on daily wooded hikes out of town
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Members-only social clubs have been part of elite existence for hundreds of years, and you no longer must be a white guy to join one, but some have gotten far more financially exclusive: the Times reports initiation fees as high as $200,000
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IV vitamin drips
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health care concierge services, which help the rich skip the line when they have trouble — as we all do — in navigating our broken health care system. At a cool annual 6,000
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If rich people were taxed reasonably and rigorously, they wouldn’t have money for skipping the line. And we could have a health care system affordable to all, one that wouldn’t require boutique help to navigate, and where everyone could get the care they need, when they need it, regardless of their income.
✏️ Two birds with one stone… taxing them so that they couldn’t skip the line, and using that money to improve the systems so that there’s no need to skip lines in the first place. 🔗 View Highlight
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Socialism should make space for the possibility of travel and chanterelles for all, if not personal servants (“no servants underfoot, no bosses overhead,” as the German labor song put it). Jennifer Wilson has pointed out in Lux that the early Soviet Union offered champagne and perfume to the masses, part of a vision of communist abundance that sadly never came to fruition.
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It’s also true that many pleasures now considered luxuries — time to read, a hike in the woods, a day at the beach — should be part of our everyday lives