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Oh, Ms. Havrilesky
You are so wrong about this: "Look, Gus, I know the problems. My wife volunteers in the city schools!" Amazing, that a white guy could craft such spot-on street dialogue, but make other white guys sound so awkward and unnatural.
That is precisely how a rich white guy from another city would sound when trying to prove that he really knows what's up. It's so dismissive that it's banal, which is precisely the point.