I worry more about the actual rent-seeking oligarchy in my part of the world running for political positions in next month's elections, purely for feudalistic reasons.
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Being a billionaire in a world where most people don't even early 50k annually is objectively immoral.
A graduation gift worth more than most people will earn over an entire career.
This shows you how billionaires imagine middle class to be. They're completely out of touch, as expected.
Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you. Don't defend them, idolize them, or trust them. Billionaires care about money and the power it provides, NOTHING ELSE. That's the main prerequisite for becoming filthy rich, after all.
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Akshually. Depending on which definition you use they are middle class. The original meaning of middle class is the wealthy who don’t hold a title. They sit below the aristocracy aka upperclass, and above the peasantry aka the working class. The middle class is also called the bourgeoisie.
i like the original meaning because it made it a lot easier to point at the bourgeois and their politics (which is currently ruining my country and the proletariat is more than willing to lean even harder into their destructive mandates).
in my country/culture, middle class is (or at least was) anyone who have earned a professional title of high esteem. i.e. a doctor. and socially they were highly respected, regardless of actual wealth status. wealthy people used to be targets of ridicule (because they tried to flaunt their wealth in public. i still remember, 20 years ago, how one of our wealthiest individuals were literally crying on TV how no one respected her for wealth and she much preferred american culture. incidentally and totally unrelated; she launched a bunch of reality tv shows about worshipping wealth after that).
unfortunately american social media and said reality TV shows have radically changed how youth and the younger generation identify "status". i always hear about how they will be rich one day and buy a super mansion. but if you ask what the purpose of that is; they couldn't explain it - it's just what they're told to desire.
so from my perspective, the next 2-3 generations are on a path to ruin in the name of capital ownership for the few.
I suppose, to her, having millions of dollars is soooo far away from her life that she has to look at it with binoculars and think that it should be middle-class.
But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!
Everyone in the US is middle class. You can be upper middle class or lower middle class, but you can never not be middle class.
She means she told them to hold their wallet around the blacks in the city, and that only feminine gays are acceptable.
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My sister and husband were confused when I said its sad Microsoft owns Xbox, one of our favorite past times. And it because of shit like this. Tax the fuckers, tax them one cent I dare u.
posting from Yahoo Finance eh
if you are seeing Yahoo Finance in your feed i bet there isn't a single word of truth in the whole scroll
She's that bored.
Ikr? Rich and power but still a weird horse girl
He's such a philantropist
Jennifer Gates, born on April 26, 1996, would have been 22 years old in 2018. All the raising has been done at that point.
Ok.
$16 Million Horse Farm and middle class income. Can he drop the farm to some random person from middle class so we can compare the outcomes ?