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The Upper Middle Class Is A Prison

"I make $350,000 per year. That's a good salary, except for these 18 blocks!"

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Ted Bauer
Mar 11, 2024
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This is probably one of the best articles you’ll read about how the upper middle-class is ostensibly a prison of its own, with the bars being “upper class striving.” It uses the Hulu series Fleischman Is In Trouble as its backbone. That’s a good show, if you haven’t seen it. I’d recommend.

This paragraph gets to the heart of the issue:

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