Robby Hoffman Will Always Feel Poor, No Matter How Rich She Gets

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Class Is the Conversation: A Final Reckoning

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Garcia-Navarro offers a closing observation: America always wants to present itself as aspirational and hides the ugliness — the trauma, the poverty, the things underneath. She suggests that what makes Hoffman so provocative is that she insists on putting that front and centre. Hoffman agrees, and admits she feels this dissonance acutely when doing interviews for elite publications like the Times. She commits, simply, to always being herself no matter the context. The conclusion she offers is plain but resonant: classism affects everybody, the conversation about economic inequality is not a new conversation, and it is not a side conversation — it is the conversation. Seth, the producer sitting on the floor of her hotel room, nods in agreement.