I wrote about the American aristocracy.

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/the-american-aristocracy-c9c9055c3323

Amanda Claypool is a Medium writer who had to quit her Washington DC job because her $40,000 a year salary was insufficient to live in Washington. She essentially lost her "political internship" out of necessity.

I watched a bit of the first Trump impeachment hearings. I thought there were two kinds of people in that room: ones who were already making $100,000+ a year and ones who would be making $100,000+ year as they were bunking in with friends and relatives to work for free.