The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life – Apparently the Times has been running a special section, “Class Matters,” for the past month. This story is a fascinating and engrossing look at the evolution of a class of working, always on-the-move elite with no roots and no ties, constantly relocated as the requirements of jobs change. It is also a reflection on the kinds of communities that are developing, for better or worse, in response to these changes.
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The woman described in the NYT article seems dissatisfied to some degree with her husband. After taking over the leadership role in the family, she wonders why her husband doesn’t behave more like a family leader.
The husband apparently has no time to play tennis with the wife since he is working his butt off to pay for her tennis instructor.
The tennis instructor is probably screwing the wife since the husband is not at home to do that either. He is too busy working to pay for the maid because the wife is too tired from tennis ”lessons” to vacuum.
The short-sighted husband is only doing his part to maintain the illusion of a meaningful existence. This type of husband is just waiting to die of a heart attack before the age of 50. When that happens, the wife gets everything and marries some other sucker. C’est la vie. Hopefully for them, the afterlife is not a fairytale.
The rat race is a cruel joke played on those foolish enough to spend their short lives running it.