The Curse of the Millennial Hotel

How the corporations killed the vacation

I remember very specifically it was 2008 because the first Fleet Foxes album came out and I couldn’t escape “White Winter Hymnal” even though it was summer. I was dating a woman who made what felt like an astronomical amount of money to me. Maybe $80,000 or so? I was a barista so I wasn’t even making half of that and the discrepancy in incomes could be …