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Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

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Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

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Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford.

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When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

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Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to score PR points. Amazon, Boeing, Bank of America, and other corporations have played the part of school benefactor, offering everything from reward programs to school supplies.

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There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price tags seem to lurk around human encounters; there's a cult of overwork in the middle class; workers at your local manicurist, your local fast casual restaurant, are exploited.

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Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book.

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To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

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Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

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When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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