Rich People Shit

A cultural intelligence publication, Rich People Shit is focused on wealth, taste, access, power, and the unspoken social systems that govern them. The work examines how cultural capital is accumulated, displayed, protected, and misread, often at the intersection of money, aesthetics, media, and behavior.

Carson is the founder and editor of Rich People Shit. She is a journalist and writer whose reporting and essays have explored elite worlds, private economies, social stratification, and the narratives people construct around status. Her work is grounded in close observation, primary sourcing, and a longstanding interest in how influence actually operates, rather than how it is marketed.

Carson has spent her career navigating the tension between visibility and discretion. She understands the utility of attention and the cost of it, and writes with an awareness of how names, headlines, and reputation function as currency. Rich People Shit reflects that perspective. It is not aspirational fantasy, nor is it moral theater. It is documentation.

She lives in New York and writes from direct experience of the financial and cultural realities she covers, including the economics of taste, the maintenance costs of lifestyle, and the quiet labor behind appearances. Her interests span investigative reporting, capital criticism and value, beauty and longevity practices, aesthetic systems, and the mechanics of modern wealth.

Rich People Shit exists as a record. Of how things work. Of who decides. And of what is worth paying attention to.

If you have an idea and reasonable judgment, my inbox is carson@readrps.com. Please don’t use it to pitch me for other publications.