it was easy to imagine the rest of the world was like this, too. It was easy to forget the Crisis still raging outside, because with money and luck and connections they had simply stepped out of it, the way you’d step out of a blizzard, into warm dry shelter.
"Poor people only exist when I see them" – sort of a mindset you really gotta be wary of yourself when you aren't confronted with "reality" on a regular enough basis.
