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> by many standards I'm "elite" (in terms of net worth High 8 figures+ net worth? Generationally wealthy? With government connections? Otherwise I don't think

• PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  Inside the top 10% for net worth would be my criteria for this, and I think many other Americans too. No self-aggrandisement here, I just wouldn't want to pretend to be "an ordinary guy on the street" (whatever that actually means).
  • nawgz 5y ago
    That would make 30 million people “elite”. We mean the 0.01% who enact laws and escape enforcement, not people who live a comfortable life lmao
    • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
      Back up-thread, I had written: > "OK, so by many standards I'm "elite" (in terms of net worth, education etc.). But I don't think I'm part of the "elite" you're referring to" explicitly acknowledging different (simultaneous, potentially overlapping) versions of what "elite" could mean. Yet here you are dickering about one definition versus another.
      • nawgz 5y ago
        I surely have never heard any one cast the top 10% of some thing as the "elite" of said domain, so I hoped to enlighten you. I must say though, your emotional control - specifically lack thereof - belies just how not-elite you are. Angry at what a commoner wrote at you on a public forum and trying to cast oneself into the highest tiers of society at the same time... Incredible