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Exactly, nobody thinks they are rich.
because they want more than they have, and they are angry they don't have more.
even when they have more than 90% of everyone else in their country.
A household income of $250k is not rich, but that's essentially top 10% in the US. Why are you intent on lumping the person you're responding to in with people shopping for a third yacht? Your thinking is a problem, because it's poor fighting less poor, while rich folk fly around on private jets.
Maybe the argument is that everyone should have the things this relatively rich person cannot afford. Not just in a SciFi utopia way, but in the sense of it being reasonable.