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How long-term friend groups handle growing economic inequality

My college friends and I have been doing an annual trip for fifteen years but this year when we started planning, it became obvious that some of us can afford way fancier places than others now, and nobody wants to be the one to bring up money directly.

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A friendship is being quietly strained by prosperity differences that everyone can see but no one feels safe naming.

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