As a career academic, I'd say my career was in line with my frugality. Faculty incomes hardly support a lifestyle of wretched excess.
There's also a culture of inverse snobbery, usually swathed in environmental awareness, that expresses itself in conspicuous non-consumption. Stereotypically, participants drive decrepid Volvos with iinprobably high odometer readings, sport leather patches on their tweed jackets, and gleefully homestead in the gentrified neighborhoods of the inner city.
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