tmyakal

So your argument is that I’m naive and service industries are rife with secret rich people pretending to be poor?

I’m sure it happens. I lived in a slum downstairs from a Rockefeller who’d wait tables part-time. But he was the exception, not the rule.

Okay, but I’m very specifically telling you that these are not trust-fund kids. These are blue-collar people combining seasonal work, unemployment checks, and cheap living expenses to do exactly the thing you’re saying the working class can’t do. They aren’t saving for retirement, they’ll never own a home, and half of them are getting wages garnished for child support, but plenty of people like that exist.

I mean, hell, Phish sells out stadiums. You think every person there is independently wealthy?

I used to work in the ski industry. Almost everyone I knew was a drug-addled hippy who would work from August to March, then take seasonal unemployment and dick around all summer. Follow Phish, play in their own bands, or just do whippits in grocery store parking lots. And these weren’t just college kids or anything. Most of it was guys who’d been doing the exact same thing every year for fifteen or twenty years.

suffer loveless relationships

Sex is not the sole expression of love that a person can give to their partner.