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David Roberts || Sparks From Culture

David Roberts, Mic'd and Medicated
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Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.

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Sex, Status, and Self-Esteem In Our Forties

Debbie and I watched The Invite this week. Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde star in the movie as a forty-something couple, miserable with themselves and each other. Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton are their joyful upstairs neighbors who come visitin...

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Rich Boy Refuge From Reality

I had some bad news a few weeks ago. A friend close to me for a very long time died. My first reaction was to try to shelter myself from the news. To use all the good memories to protect myself.

But while the memories abide, the grief has...

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Raise My Taxes Not From Spite But From Prudence

My taxes should go up but not because wealth is immoral and not because most wealthy people are greedy grifters. I want taxes to go up because when I take a hard look at the deficits and debt of our federal government, I see great peril.

A...

21 days ago
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Going Broke Earning Five Million Dollars A Year

My 89-year-old father has been in the hospital all week so that’s where my attention has been. No audio this week.

I enjoyed writing this post last May, using current numbers to analyze the financial life of Sherman McCoy, “hero” of the ‘...

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The Dangerous Complacency of the Wealthy

Famous 18th century icon of the 0.1%

The rhetoric against the wealthy has grown more harsh, more bitter, more belligerent. Understandably.

The concentration of the wealth at the very top is historically high.

And according to Moody’s...

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  • David Roberts

    Writer of the Substack Sparks From Culture; zealous fan of my family, my Shih Tzu, all things Substack, NYC (lifelong resident); forty year career in finance, now a writer.

  • Mic'd and Medicated

    We say what you’re thinking but don’t say out loud. Mic’d and Medicated is two NYC moms oversharing to build real community. When we say the unsayable, someone always writes: I thought I was the only one. You’re not.

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