Others spoke in similar terms, underscoring exactly why they will not be shamed into feeling bad for working hard. It’s a matter of personal choice, according to a real estate developer who moved to this community from San Francisco. “There are people that choose to goof off” when they could have spent their young adulthood “productively steepening their own income curve.” And it’s not like he didn’t want to goof off like some of the rural Western working class do. “I mean believe me, every night that I was ordering Chinese food to [large bank name redacted] at ten o’clock at night, I would have much rather have been in Jackson at the Cowboy Bar with ski-bums having beers. But I didn’t do that and so you know those guys who are sort of bitter and struggling in Jackson, there’s a slice of them where I sort of say, ‘well you chose to spend your twenties [laughs] skiing and living on your buddy’s couch, and so you sort of get what you deserve.’ ”