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I think this is addressed here:

"For there’s the real rub with digital isolation — the problem those billionaires identified when we were gaming out their bunker strategies. The people and things we’d be leaving behind are still out there. And the more we ask them to service our bubbles, the more oppressed and angry they’re going to get."

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Yea, I can’t imagine how angry my landscaper and pool service guys are that I have the gall to pay them money in exchange for services.

I haven’t seen either this week, perhaps they are at a meeting of the revolutionary workers.

Rich people often seem surprised that the peasantry don't view them as the benevolent foundation of their own prosperity.

Since neither you or I am rich, how would you know?

Since my landscaper and pool guy are both independent entrepreneurs, maybe they view me as a valuable customer?

Flash news; it's possible to know something without directly experiencing it yourself.

It’s also possible to pontificate about things that aren’t really true. In fact it’s done often.

Yes I know, no one is rich, we're all just various layers of middle class - even if we're hiring landscapers and pool service and think of ourselves as supply-side jesus.

So now living in a home with a pool is a mark of “the rich”?

Apparently half of Alabama now qualifies.

Yes, we are all rich in a sense in the programmer world. That pool guy in my town, Seattle, or the guy cutting my grass today where the air is dangerous with smoke, they are out in it and I'm not.

I was paying my lawn guy to not come during the early part of the pandemic, he wanted to come so I let him.

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