I’m not dismissing anyone’s experiences. You cannot find me doing that. I will point out that someone’s experience seems to be unusual, because knowing it’s important to know what the usual experience is

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we are slowly becoming the GOP, sure that expertise is a big trick the eggheads are playing on us

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Seriously, is there allowed to be research into this question? Only if it comes to the conclusion that seems intuitively correct? Is anyone allowed to be an expert in anything? Or are everyone’s opinions merely reflective of their class status (“workers and correct” or “rich and out of touch”)

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The research *specifically looks at one-time windfalls,* the lifetime figure is an explanation of why this counterintuitive result holds

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Try to understand how frustrating it is to be told that your claims - which you have thought long and hard about, a lot longer and harder than the people who decided they just *feel* wrong - are per se invalid and cannot be proven by any evidence, because you’re rich (oh, and you’re broke)

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