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72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires
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Don't forget all of the people who will certainly be millionaires in the future! They will definitely not be middle class and delusional for the rest of their lives
Middle-class people will be millionaires.
$1M equates to $40k/year income in retirement at a 4% SWR (safe withdrawal rate). In 2025, that's not actually a lot, even if you have Social Security on top of it.
If you're not a millionaire by the time you're retired, you're damn near impoverished. The only way for that to count as "middle class" (in the "close to the median income" sense) is if the middle class is destroyed (in the "existing separate and distinct from the lower class" sense).
(INB4 somebody chimes in with "it never was separate and distinct" -- yeah, yeah, I know, working-class solidarity and all that. But you get my point, right?)