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RSS FeedsEmma Teitel: This clueless rich girl`s money diary provides a valuable public service
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

20 july 2018 22:46:06

 
Emma Teitel: This clueless rich girl`s money diary provides a valuable public service
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


I have a theory that there are two things keeping journalism afloat in an age where hardly anyone pays for it: the first is (ironically) endless coverage of media’s sworn enemy, Donald J. Trump. And the second is personal essays penned by clueless rich people that have a way of driving incredible traffic online and driving readers raving mad. Remember Toronto Life’s blockbuster “reno nightmare” story of last year, “We Bought a Crack House”? Its author, a well-heeled woman who alongside her husband poured more than a million dollars into a detached Victorian home once “populated by drug users and squatters,” could very well have gone into hiding, that is how much readers loathed her oblivious ode to gentrification. But “We Bought a Crack House” is so 2017. There’s a brand new rich girl log circling the net right now, making the masses livid, this one published anonymously on the popular lifestyle website Refinery29. The piece, originally titled “A Week in New York City on $25/Hour” is a thorough breakdown of one 21-year-old marketing intern’s abnormally cushy life in the big apple, complete with weekends in the Hamptons, $23 “goat cheese avocado wraps” and a high-end gym membership. Some choice excerpts:“On top of my intern salary, my parents give me a $800/month allowance, and my grandpa also wires me $300 every month (#blessed).”“I spend most of my morning working on a small project, online shopping, and journaling. Perk of being an intern is that I don’t get too much work assigned in a day. But I do find myself bored occasionally.”“I take my lunch outside. It’s the same as yesterday: salmon, brown rice, and roasted cauliflower. I also listen to an Oprah podcast and read some of my current book, You Don’t Have to Like Me.”And they don’t. They really don’t. It’s extremely fortunate the author did ...


 
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