can't even live on 300k? yeah ... still no sympathy

a while back a i wrote about a piece in the ny times about how some former wall streeters were finding it difficult to live on half a million dollars a year. their plight evoked not an ounce of sympathy. now the washington post offers a profile of a poor divorcee who's finding it difficult to maintain her $2.4 million house, $40,000 nanny, and 3 children on $300,000 a year. so pathetic that we should even be subjected to this "news" and remind me why we're supposed to feel bad for this woman?