Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Mm-hmm.

And I was house sitting for him for like a month.

Um, and he allowed me to use his membership while I was there.

And, you know, like I kind of turned my nose up at it, being like, that's crazy the amount of money you're paying for this place.

It's a three hundred K initiation fee.

That's just to apply.

your yearly dues.

No, no.

No.

So then it's dues, all this stuff, and you know, you're encouraged to donate and and then once you enter the club, it's not like it's uh like a free buffet.

You pay for everything and everything's you know ex extraordinarily costly.

And you know, I found myself like, you know, three days into using it where I'm like, oh can I see an application please?

You know.

And so uh yeah, while I was there I was observing that um

You know, probably most of the members are like Boomer Silent Gen from my estimation.

And then almost all the workers were uh millennial and Gen Z.

And I thought, well, that's a you know, analogy for twenty twenty six if I've ever seen one, where no matter how hard the

millennials and Gen Z workers work, uh, they're never gonna get to be members.

They're not gonna be able to pay that three hundred K initiation fee.

And that felt like an appropriate metaphor for I think how a lot of people are feeling today, you know.

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