"Marc’s strategy of staying in [[Manhattan]] may be rational, as his demanding work hours would make it impossible for him to commute. **But the costs on his wife, Janet, are monstrous. Why? Because of their relative nonsuccess—as geographically defined by their [[Park Avenue]] neighborhood**. "Every month or so, Janet has a crisis, giving in to the strains and humiliations of being snubbed by some other mother at the school where she picks up the children, or another woman with larger diamonds by the elevator of the co-op where they live in the smallest type of apartments (the G line). Why isn’t her husband so successful? Isn’t he smart and hard-working? Didn’t he get close to 1600 on the SAT? Why is this Ronald Something, whose wife never even nods to Janet, worth hundreds of millions, when her husband went to [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]] and has such a high IQ and has hardly any substantial savings?" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[envy]], [[environmental-design]], [[clustering-illusion]], [[work-life-balance]], [[causation]], [[swimmer-body-illusion]] , [[survivorship-bias]] **Source** -- [[fooled-by-randomness]]