Jia Tolentino connects 3 contentious articles (A Refinery29 "Money Diaries" about a "#blessed" 21-year old NY-er , a Forbes feature on Kylie Jenner's path to becoming a "self-made" billionaire , and a NYT article on 2 newcomers who "wanted the full New York City experience ") in a discussion about privilege, racism, and outrage-bait."What this all added up to was a grim vision of our current situation, in which popular narratives around wealth acquisition have become so convoluted and self-delusional that Elon Musk recently tweeted that the word “billionaire” has turned into a derogatory term.... The problem is not that rich girls are spared educational debt or that they become lip-kit tycoons or that they choose to pay nearly four grand for a two-bedroom apartment in midtown. The problem is that these financial privileges are shrouded in such heavy dissembling, in an instinctive denial of what American wealth really is and what it really means."