I want to be rich; I have an evil bimbofication fetish. Its why all my plates and stuff are lead.
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How much is the rich exactly? I'm in the top 10% earners of my country and still:
- cannot afford house even with a loan
- unpaid leave is risky
- having kids is almost complete drain of savings
- vacations I can afford are vacations where I stay home and do renovations myself
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.
If I get disability I'm honestly going to just never do money work again. I don't care if it's a tiny amount.
I endorse this.
Having enough money to not worry anymore is called being rich
Ironically, billionaires probably do worry about money a lot. Just not in the same way everyone else does.
Hoarding disorder doesn’t count in this scenario. They need to get treatment for their mental illness but they have no ability to self reflect because they also have a lot of narcissistic and psychopathic traits.
it's not a mental illness. it's human nature.
So is cancer.
Got a job making good money then boom the price of things keep going up 😞
Invest lil bro
In this ecodomy with no money to invest, yeah no
If you have no money to invest, you're not making good money
As I said not now that the price of everything keeps going up 😅
Hmm. honestly, the lifestyle described here might cost some money, but if people are rich, they typically have 100x or 1000x the money needed to do even that.
The simplest way to classify "rich" is capitalist class. Those that no longer perform labor. Instead, their wealth passively generates wealth that sustains their lifestyle. There's no set, defined number. Someone who is "rich" does not need to work and affords luxury.
Which, this is only facilitated via an exploited working class that are not fairly compensated for the labor that they perform and the profits of said labor is traded back and forth amongst said capitalists. Hence why the rich are a parasite class. Socialism for the wealthy and slavery for the workers.
Basic fundamentals of capitalism. Meritocracy is the myth that allows it to function similar to how a religious mandate provided legitimacy to a monarch.
The simplest way to classify “rich” is capitalist class. Those that no longer perform labor. Instead, their wealth passively generates wealth that sustains their lifestyle.
That means everybody who managed to retire is rich.
On some level, that is a useful way of looking at things. The reason for making the distinction between workers (people who sell their own time for a living) and owners (people who own for a living) is because they have different political interests. The workers benefit from paid sick leave, higher minimum wage, and from wellfare state stuff like progressive tax funded health care and all that. All of this disadvantages the owning class. And, if you assume retirees fund their retirements through investments (which is not generally true btw, private pensions are not the only model), this holds on some level for retirees as well. If their income depends on the profits of some company, then it is not to their benefit if that company needs to pay workers more.
It's a simplification, but yes, it can be meaningful to think of retirees as "rich" in this sense for some political analyses.
And, if you assume retirees fund their retirements through investments (which is not generally true btw, private pensions are not the only model), this holds on some level for retirees as well. If their income depends on the profits of some company, then it is not to their benefit if that company needs to pay workers more.
When you have a public pension, the difference is just that you do not take it via profit, but via some sort of tax. So for pensioners in general, they do not want to increase the real pay of workers. It is also hard to argue that a government pension is not a form of wealth, when something similar on the private market is considered that.
So for pensioners in general, they do not want to increase the real pay of workers
I don't understand this. Why?
Why give more to the workers, when you can take it yourself?
Yeah, so that argument makes sense when your pension is privately funded. I can't really connect the dots for the public ones.
In a public pension, there is some sort of tax, which is taken from workers to pay the pensions. If you want to increase pensions, you need to increase those taxes, hence everything else being equal you lower the real wage of workers.
Ok, so what you're saying, I think, is that if we increase the wages, i.e., if the companies pay the workers more, somehow, tax revenue goes down, which affects pensions. I lose the plot where I inserted "somehow". I'm missing some kind of connection there that you seem to see but I don't.
The production of the workers labour is basically split three ways: Wage, company profit and taxes. If the workers productivity does not change, an increasing the wage is therefore going to reduce profit and/or taxes.
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I was there for a while. Our rent was low and we could buy whatever we needed.
Then landlords gonna landlord and we were kicked out of our perfect home. Now we own a polished turd and we’re one paycheck away from homelessness because we were forced to buy near our jobs, in 2024 when there was no inventory, and the first one that even came close to being habitable was expensive AF.
The whiplash has fully radicalized me. The landlord class must be dealt with.
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What even is the standard for rich though? I need at least half a million just to take the edge off.
I understand. I agree. I really do.
I NEED ELEVENTY GAJILLION DOLLARS TO NOT WORRY ANYMORE. ANNUALLY. NOT A PENNY LESS.
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And there it is. My whole view on life.
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