Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Who Are We Talking About

This is obviously not a new point, and it isn't entirely surprising that elite people in the elite media focus on the troubles of the elite, but sometimes I'm amazed by the complete lack of awareness of this by people doing it.

Discussions of higher education entirely involve Ivy-level schools. Discussions of the troubles of the "middle class" are about buying New York real estate and affording private school.

And I have no idea how those obsessed with precisely when young women put a ring on it and crank out a baby think that most people in this country right now can even think about supporting a child financially. Want people to get married and have babies? Give them some freaking child care.