Retirees and trust-funders aside, isn't this article about every painter/writer/dancer/musician/hipster in NYC? Hello failed painters--- The writer (and The Onion) aren't writing this in empathy. This is not "misery loves company". You're the butt of the joke. Normal people with normal lives read this stuff and LOL, because they know somebody like this, and they think that person is pathetic, pathetic in a way that prompts derisive laughter, the kind of LOL that smug, confident, secure, happy, normal people engage in all day long.