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That’s the thing about money. It insulates you from certain truths. If ignorance is bliss, then it’s also the greatest luxury money can buy.
I may not have personally done anything wrong, but my entire life, my very existence, had been built on the back of others’ sufferings. And that made me complicit.
This is white privilege !! An amazing passage!!!
It is immoral to be rich; if being rich means having more money than you need, more money than you know what to do with, who do you think is paying that price?
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Yes, it’s immoral to be rich, but it’s worse being poor.
It was the kind of thing brands had started posting recently, as if they were moral entities instead of capitalist enterprises, as if they had values beyond customer retention and profit margin.
This couldn’t be more true!
As people began to think of themselves more and more as brands, brands started to feel more and more like people.
I’m making myself better through buying things.
10/10 relatable!
Unfortunately, that’s also the first sign the high is already slipping through your fingers. (It’s a cruel irony that the first high is always the best, the first comedown always the easiest, and, hooked on that one-time illusory experience, you’ll spend years chasing that intensity, only to find that it’s receding at an ever-faster clip.)
I’d been training for this, after all; every girl has. Why else do they teach us to hate our bodies, to treat them as expensive machines? Then it’s easy to do whatever you have to do, since you’re not really involved; everything’s happening on the outside, but inside you’re completely untouched.
because a woman’s sexual past still explains everything, is both cause and effect of everything in her life. She is necessarily good and sweet until a man corrupts her, and then you can’t blame her—it’s not her fault, it’s the man’s fault.
I’ve heard people say that rape is worse than murder, which is to say that a woman’s sexual purity or dignity is more important than her life. Needless to say, I don’t buy that. Under threat of violence or death, my dignity means nothing and my sexual purity even less.
