7:18 pm - 08/03/2012
Stop the presses! Someone has out-GOOP-ed Gwyneth! And it was Nina Garcia!
By “GOOPing” (a verb I just made up), I of course mean “advising one’s followers to buy something that only someone with your exorbitant salary (i.e. not many of them) can afford, and presenting it as common sense, girl-to-girl lifestyle advice.” (Depending on how naive you are willing to believe she is, it might also be interpreted as a tasteless #humblebrag.)
The Birkin bag in question costs $26,000. As in, more than some people make in a year.
Garcia’s followers were quick to point out her miscalculation:
She has yet to respond to this criticism in any way.
Doing a little bit of math, someone would need to make about $450,000/year to earn $26,000 in three weeks. The average household income in America (all breadwinners combined) is somewhere around $50,000. I don’t know the average annual income of someone who follows Nina Garcia on twitter, but I’m guessing it’s not $450,000.
Believe it or not, I’m not criticizing Nina Garcia for being rich or buying expensive things. I’m criticizing her for being so out of touch with her readership that she’d sincerely recommend they buy a handbag that costs more than a year of tuition at Columbia. I know Nina Garcia was born wealthy, but she did work as a regular fashion journalist for a while before ascending to her current role as Marie Claire editor-at-large/Project Runway judge/”Style Voice and fashion collection curator” to J.C. Penney, so she should have at least some idea what her core demographic makes.
Or even if she’s always made six figures (must be nice!), Garcia is educated enough to have at least read the newspaper sometime in the past few years, no? Is this woman just incredibly naive, or what? Does she really believe that only rich ladies read fashion blogs? Or maybe she’s trolling for outrage, in which case, congrats, I guess? What do you think?
SOURCE
Nina Garcia Very Drastically Overestimates What ‘A Few Weeks’ Salary’ Means For Most People
Stop the presses! Someone has out-GOOP-ed Gwyneth! And it was Nina Garcia!
By “GOOPing” (a verb I just made up), I of course mean “advising one’s followers to buy something that only someone with your exorbitant salary (i.e. not many of them) can afford, and presenting it as common sense, girl-to-girl lifestyle advice.” (Depending on how naive you are willing to believe she is, it might also be interpreted as a tasteless #humblebrag.)
The Birkin bag in question costs $26,000. As in, more than some people make in a year.
Garcia’s followers were quick to point out her miscalculation:
She has yet to respond to this criticism in any way.
Doing a little bit of math, someone would need to make about $450,000/year to earn $26,000 in three weeks. The average household income in America (all breadwinners combined) is somewhere around $50,000. I don’t know the average annual income of someone who follows Nina Garcia on twitter, but I’m guessing it’s not $450,000.
Believe it or not, I’m not criticizing Nina Garcia for being rich or buying expensive things. I’m criticizing her for being so out of touch with her readership that she’d sincerely recommend they buy a handbag that costs more than a year of tuition at Columbia. I know Nina Garcia was born wealthy, but she did work as a regular fashion journalist for a while before ascending to her current role as Marie Claire editor-at-large/Project Runway judge/”Style Voice and fashion collection curator” to J.C. Penney, so she should have at least some idea what her core demographic makes.
Or even if she’s always made six figures (must be nice!), Garcia is educated enough to have at least read the newspaper sometime in the past few years, no? Is this woman just incredibly naive, or what? Does she really believe that only rich ladies read fashion blogs? Or maybe she’s trolling for outrage, in which case, congrats, I guess? What do you think?
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the ~minimum for the 1% is under 400k a year.
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/t
and awful ._.
idt anyone would look good in it otherwise tho
I died when they attempted couture
I'm one of the lucky ones, but goddamn what the hell.
i agree tho <3
that lip bite at the end is doing it for me rn
and it really varies on where you live/cost of living
Edited at 2012-08-04 07:04 am (UTC)
In American politics, when the middle class is mentioned in politics, politicians are purposefully vague. Why? Because almost effing everyone in America thinks they're middle class. Those who fall into that upper 1% aren't going to be offended that the politicians aren't ~speaking to their issues~ because they're the ones with the money to buy plates at fundraisers, and they likely have some stake, direct or indirect, in the lobbies that are known for being so influential in Washington. The impoverished, on the other hand, aren't likely voters, and it's only becoming more difficult to vote if you have transportation or financial issues, so again, the politicians don't have to care if they aren't talking to you, the impoverished.
The problem is that if 150-250K were a genuine picture of the middle of America, and a place that most Americans could aspire to reach, America would be in outstanding shape. It isn't, but politicians in America, conservative ones especially, keep trying to push the picture that it is.
i'm poor as hale but middle class, one of my friends is a millionare and is working class and so on..
but yeh, people thinking making $/£ 250k a year is normal, no chance.
I MAKE THAT IN A FEW YEARS.
Its just the way it is now
some ppl make more money
the rag and bone leather jackets that he is wearing here rretails for like 1400
he is wealthy
Ahh, the perks of molding the future of this country
I think she's a little confused about how much the average person makes.
I think I make a pretty decent salary, but it takes me more than a couple weeks to afford something like that.. and honestly I just wouldn't.
even if it is tap water with gold sparkles in it.
rich white people will pay OUT THE ASS for it.
There are days when I'm incredibly bitter about my station in life, and then there are days like these when I'm just glad to be not as motherfucking CLUELESS as people like Nina Garcia.