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“The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.”

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In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social…

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Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.

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'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new…

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I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level,…

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When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine…

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To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and…

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Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting…

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A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults…

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Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so…

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Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the…

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Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois…

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