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When friend groups drift apart due to diverging economic paths

Our friend group from college used to be tight, but five years out some of us are in graduate school, others are making six figures in tech, and a few are still working service jobs, and we don't know how to hang out anymore without the money differences feeling weird.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic divergence in peer groups reveals how class shapes social relationships and challenges the myth that friendship transcends material circumstances.

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