A professor, she has an annual household income over $90,000, which puts her in the top 20 percent of earners in the richest country in the world, ever in human history. She knows that she belongs to an economic elite, but she doesn’t feel rich. She feels stretched thin by the work of paying her bills and cleaning her house. She doesn’t want to pay a woman to clean her house, that’s too intimate, but she pays a woman to wax her legs in the pink privacy of a nail salon’s back room. She lives a life of contradictions and she’s caught between her own contradictory desires. She wants more and less
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