The lesson here is that there’s no meaningful conversations to be had between 60 year olds and teenagers. So just avoid them.

I know I seem like an old person, but there’s situations where I’ve had to talk to teenagers and the experience is surreal how different our realities are. And it’s definitely worse when the teenagers are rich. It’s all one can do to not freak out and start screaming like Annie Wilkes from Misery or Holden Caufield from Catcher in the Rye.

I was sitting in a classroom and the sentence I remember was “My dad says a [Mercedes] E Class is just the poor man’s S Class, I would never drive one even if you gave it to me.”

The mistake this person made was going on the trip. Trying to be “open minded” with teenage rich girls who chose to go on a Peruvian shaman vacation shows poor judgement.

Author says he was trying to do his friend a favor, but a $300/day upside compared with just the mental pain of eating meals with teenagers for days is just not worth it.

This seems like NYT just using an excuse to fire him and the ideological madness is just cover.