A little dose of what the fuck?
So, part of my fabulous job is to print copies of the course materials used for our classes.
Well, I have to print out some stuff that isn't as automated as print one big file....so I have to print out each screen, so I've decided to learn about trust funds.
And all I have to say is what the fuck- this is like a giant culture shock to me. First off, everyone in ALL of these graphics is white. Every single one. The thing is a case study with this GIANT douchebag that looks sort of like a 55 year old version of a guy I dated. It's really like an Onion article- "Theoretical man a theoretical douchebag." So far he's admitted to being a crappy father to his two kids that are out of college, then he remarried some 12 years younger broad, now has kids that are like 5 years old (which he is really too old to be having kids that little when he already has grandkids...what the fuck), has whined about estate taxes, and has financial cocnerns because he only has like $1 million in investments and a $850,000 life insurance policy.
Since this weekend I found out I think almost entirely in allegory/analogy, I'll make the analogy of the kid in the sweatshop that will never be able to afford the iPod nano that they just built. I know on what they're pying me I'm not going to need to know how to manage my $2 million plus assets. The whole thing reminds me of how class in the US makes for radically different subcultures of american society, to the point where a middle class American probably has more in common with a Middle class Italian than an Upper class American. When I was in highschool my NHS sponsor went to some kind of seminar which discussed this, and she got to take back a handout entitled "Could you Survive in a Different Economic Class?" The answer was pretty much no but the list was fascinating (and I can't find it on the internet- d'oh!!!) but I found part of it and will steal it and put some of it up
It was split up into lower, middle, upper class, and mentioned some skills and knowledge sets needed to survive in each class, in a kind of "can you....?" manner
Upper
-order off a menu in three languages?
-learn the names of 300 attendees at an important social event?
-manage help/servants/staff at three different residences?
Middle (I kind of forgot a lot of these because I was used to them
-manage a schedule and get kids to soccer, ballet, and karate lessons weekly?
-something about tang
Lower
-get low-cost or free meals for your family?
-fend for yourself in neighborhoods that may not be safe?
-not get mugged in a rough neighborhood?
-pack up and move to a new residence overnight?
I really wish I had a copy of that!!! It was really good, except kind of stereoptypical, but still good.
Oh, the other case study had one of the people being "Uncomfortable with giving [their child] Andrew $20,000 a year unrestricted" since they "don't want him to think he doesn't have to work." This has now gone to a Bree Van De Kamp level.
I think we as a country should be happy we have this sort of superfluous shit to keep us up at night. As Natasha would say- "some people have war in their countries"
Well, I have to print out some stuff that isn't as automated as print one big file....so I have to print out each screen, so I've decided to learn about trust funds.
And all I have to say is what the fuck- this is like a giant culture shock to me. First off, everyone in ALL of these graphics is white. Every single one. The thing is a case study with this GIANT douchebag that looks sort of like a 55 year old version of a guy I dated. It's really like an Onion article- "Theoretical man a theoretical douchebag." So far he's admitted to being a crappy father to his two kids that are out of college, then he remarried some 12 years younger broad, now has kids that are like 5 years old (which he is really too old to be having kids that little when he already has grandkids...what the fuck), has whined about estate taxes, and has financial cocnerns because he only has like $1 million in investments and a $850,000 life insurance policy.
Since this weekend I found out I think almost entirely in allegory/analogy, I'll make the analogy of the kid in the sweatshop that will never be able to afford the iPod nano that they just built. I know on what they're pying me I'm not going to need to know how to manage my $2 million plus assets. The whole thing reminds me of how class in the US makes for radically different subcultures of american society, to the point where a middle class American probably has more in common with a Middle class Italian than an Upper class American. When I was in highschool my NHS sponsor went to some kind of seminar which discussed this, and she got to take back a handout entitled "Could you Survive in a Different Economic Class?" The answer was pretty much no but the list was fascinating (and I can't find it on the internet- d'oh!!!) but I found part of it and will steal it and put some of it up
It was split up into lower, middle, upper class, and mentioned some skills and knowledge sets needed to survive in each class, in a kind of "can you....?" manner
Upper
-order off a menu in three languages?
-learn the names of 300 attendees at an important social event?
-manage help/servants/staff at three different residences?
Middle (I kind of forgot a lot of these because I was used to them
-manage a schedule and get kids to soccer, ballet, and karate lessons weekly?
-something about tang
Lower
-get low-cost or free meals for your family?
-fend for yourself in neighborhoods that may not be safe?
-not get mugged in a rough neighborhood?
-pack up and move to a new residence overnight?
I really wish I had a copy of that!!! It was really good, except kind of stereoptypical, but still good.
Oh, the other case study had one of the people being "Uncomfortable with giving [their child] Andrew $20,000 a year unrestricted" since they "don't want him to think he doesn't have to work." This has now gone to a Bree Van De Kamp level.
I think we as a country should be happy we have this sort of superfluous shit to keep us up at night. As Natasha would say- "some people have war in their countries"