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Everyone is pretty sure that "rich people" should pay for everything, and that "rich" is defined as anyone that has 10x more wealth than I do. Whether you're ma
by darawk 6y ago
Everyone is pretty sure that "rich people" should pay for everything, and that "rich" is defined as anyone that has 10x more wealth than I do. Whether you're making 20k or making 200k, everyone thinks that real wealth is one order of magnitude away.
- isx726552 6y agoIt’s not all relative, there are levels of wealth which are beyond normal conception, even in absolute terms. There are people who clearly have more money than they could reasonably spend in a lifetime (billionaires in particular), and then there are people who have an expensive house but not much else to speak of.
- jeffbee 6y agoBoth of those classes of people are right. Wealth in America is now so concentrated that "the rich" can all fit on the same airplane. The political conversation has been corrupted by convincing ordinary people that they have a common interest with the rich. This has been so successful that my mother, with a net worth of about $50k, gets on the phone to tell me how angry she is about Joe Biden's inheritance tax, which doesn't cost anything on estates worth less than $5 million.