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the only people that can afford to live like bums are the rich and the white.
Surely skin colour is irrelevant here? Wealth is the determining factor.
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It is, though the inferred narrative is ‘old money’ and as such deeply routed in the particulars of race and class. I’d lose either way, as when I said “the rich and the white” someone will point to a person of colour bucking the trend.
Either way, I agree that it is persons of privilege that can afford to do these things, and those people are overwhelmingly white.
pdlouche
Excellent points and article, but too much of a long read for me. I got the point in the first three paragraphs, but probably because I already knew it all.
Close friend of mine and I have always had this opinion, the only people that can afford to live like bums are the rich and the white. His cousin travels around in a converted transit van and lives as a modern stoner hippy. His parents moved from UK to South France when they bough a vinyard. He only goes home when he needs to top up his bank balance.