Barely scraping by on $500K a year
It’s like some twisted version of It’s a Wonderful Life, where the bank’s in trouble, so George Bailey gets everyone to kick in money to help Mr. Potter pay for his yearly $35,000 ball gown budget. Ah, crap, now that I reread that sentence, it’s not a twisted version of a movie, it’s pretty damn close to what we’re currently living.
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Could an author, one presumably raised by humans and not by wild bears, begin a serious, non-satirical story like this?
PRIVATE school: $32,000 a year per student. Mortgage: $96,000 a year. Co-op maintenance fee: $96,000 a year. Nanny: $45,000 a year.
We are 1/4″ into the column and already the premise is irrevocably fucked.
February 16th, 2009 15:54
Good post. I’m surprised it went this long without a single comment, but I suppose it’s worthy of making us all completely speechless. What a fucking joke.
February 19th, 2009 04:22
Totally unrelated, and I’m really sorry about that, but I found this and felt the need to share, lest it go unnoticed.
February 21st, 2009 23:17
K: yah, I know this isn’t a popular blog, but I’m surprised it didn’t get more comments too. My head about exploded.
February 23rd, 2009 00:05
I thought it *was* done satirically?