Hillbilly Elegy
If Books Could Kill
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We Shouldn't Spend Like This
"Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we're upper class," he says. "When the dust clears, when bankruptcy hits or a family member bales us out of our stupidity, there's nothing left over." The idea that there's this like big problem with frivolous spending in poor communities,. it's just right fiction. It's just bootstrapsbullying", writes John Sutter.
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