Submitted by CactusBoyScout t3_11rkxhs in nyc
Grass8989 t1_jcak5pq wrote
Reply to comment by burnshimself in Not Even This City Councilman Can Find an Apartment in New York City by CactusBoyScout
His father was an attorney and popular podcaster with a several million dollar net worth. He was able to comfortably live at home before finally DECIDING it was time to move out. That’s privilege, sorry.
[deleted] t1_jcayzrx wrote
even if he is/was privileged...thats not what a nepo baby is
burnshimself t1_jcamdu1 wrote
Lol on what authority do you think this man was a millionaire? Other than owning a home in park slope - which I gather they’ve owned for decades and bought when real estate in park slope was super cheap and the area was not its present yuppie playground - I see no signs of material wealth. He went on scholarship to school - not something that a wealthy family would have been offered and concrete evidence of his family’s income being well below what you’re representing.
He was a lawyer in the music industry - which he did for about 10 years until leaving in 2001. That’s a fine living, but not upper class. He probably was a salaried employee and not even a partner-level lawyer. He didn’t have his own firm. And big big money didn’t show up in hip hop until after he left the industry. So I don’t see his legal career as being something that would have hugely enriched him.
And the blog / podcast job almost certainly didn’t make him rich. Only very recently (last 5 years) have any podcasters started making real big money. And that’s only the biggest names. This guy ran a middling niche podcast that could never pay him any kind of big money. Same for blogging - journalism is notoriously not lucrative.
Living at home with your parents is the opposite of privilege. Privilege is having your parents pay for you to have your own apartment. Millions of Americans live at home into their 20s, usually because they can’t afford to move out. How is being too poor to move out of your parents house privilege? Or are we just saying anyone who doesn’t have two dead, destitute, homeless crack addicts parents is privileged?
So again I’ll ask where is the privilege?
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