When friends and neighbors run for the hills, small differences in wealth suddenly loom large. lisaxmiller writes about what the coronavirus reveals about wealth among friends
A man with PPE exits his sports car on Main Street in East Hampton. Photo: David Williams/David Williams Some of my best friends own country houses. This is not a new discovery. One of the things I have loved best about my life in New York is exactly this, the wide diversity in the affluence of my friends — if you can call a group of mostly white, mostly college-educated, striving people living in Brooklyn and Manhattan “diverse.
What I have adored about New York from the outset — the human crush — is now the problem. Crammed together in elevators and at bars, we all breathe the same potentially infected air. That density used to mean proximity to everything and everyone, that I might walk into a party and meet an heiress or a drummer or a television anchor and that I might date an astrophysicist or a cop.
A preference for fulfillment and excitement over a fat brokerage account is easy to defend when you’re young and self-centered. In youth, no one is keeping too close an eye on the relative fragility of individual friends’ financial health; everyone knows a whopping bill hurts different dinner guests differently, but that isn’t enough to ruin the party.
There is so much quarantine judgment right now, as if there were one single right way to respond to an unprecedented catastrophe or to assess and calculate real and imagined risk.
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