Because I was reading this and noticed this tone of “Sam Shepard/ John Cassavetes in neon lights for the trust fund hipster generation” and wondered about the lack of mention of any financial issues. The couple in this fiction goes to restaurants, pursues their creative and quirky sides, shop, go to sleep at 6 AM with no worry in their minds, etc. And that seems to be the aspirational goal of the entire Thought Catalog ethos. I wonder how many of the 1% feel represented by it and how many of the 99% actually aspire to live this lifestyle. Which would actually contradict many of the OWS postulates. I just find it difficult to reconcile that both OWS/ We are the 99% and Thought Catalog can co-exist as part of the same New York pop culture factory and, of course, how it is possible for them to share part of the same demographics.
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