In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat

[w0nderer]

1. K&R -- that isolation is also the danger

My former employer (notice this..the person who signed each and every one of my paychecks)

couldn't connect the 'paycheck for w0nderer == 25k max per year pre tax' with the real world

so if we were on a service call (correction, i was on a service call and he came along for the ride for some reason)

and we passed a restaurant or nice apartment/housing area he would ask if i ate there or why i didn't move to the nice housing area

(the housing area in question was one of the start at $2500/month) things
the restaurant one of the $25-30 for a cheese sandwich and water type things

he couldn't for the life of him click that the paycheck he signed..didn't add up to living that kind of life, mentally he was unable to leave the 'bubble' of his lifestyle.

isolating affluent more..will make that worse...it's what happened in Russia and France..with known results