They were thinking about where to buy a second home and whether their young children should go to private school. Then she made a confession: She took the price tags off her clothes so that her nanny would not see them. “I take the label off our six-dollar bread,” she said.
She did this, she explained, because she was uncomfortable with the inequality between herself and her nanny, a Latina immigrant. She had a household income of $250,000 and inherited wealth of several million dollars. Relative to the nanny, she told me, “The choices that I have are obscene. Six-dollar bread is obscene.”
Then how about paying your nanny enough so that she can also afford six-dollar loaf of bread now and then, also?
The remedies for this kind of "guilt" are ready available and quite simple, actually.
She did this, she explained, because she was uncomfortable with the inequality between herself and her nanny, a Latina immigrant. She had a household income of $250,000 and inherited wealth of several million dollars. Relative to the nanny, she told me, “The choices that I have are obscene. Six-dollar bread is obscene.”
Then how about paying your nanny enough so that she can also afford six-dollar loaf of bread now and then, also?
The remedies for this kind of "guilt" are ready available and quite simple, actually.