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.
people making 250K try to minimize costs, maximize gains, and ruthlessly pursue their own self interests at the expense of other people around them and they want to avoid/shut out other people from attaining what they have.
and yes, it is rich. they just don’t feel rich because they are socially isolated from the people who make 25K a year, and they look with envy at the person making 500K, just like that person envies those who make 1mil a year. so on and so on.
for a person making 25K a year, making 250K is unfathomably rich.
Have you spent any time in different classes of society, let alone looking at their behavioral patterns? probably not, sadly very few people do, hence why they are convinced people of different wealth levels are a different species. They aren’t.
your grandma voting against new development in her town to ‘preserve its character’ is the same thing as zuckerberg buying up properties around him to prevent it. it’s a different scale, yes, but the idea is the same, it’s about controlling what is around you and prevent others from altering it because of your preferences.
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.
My household income is 50k. You’re most certainly rich at 250k, but if you can’t live on that it’s cause you’re living way above what you should be
because they behave the same way.
people making 250K try to minimize costs, maximize gains, and ruthlessly pursue their own self interests at the expense of other people around them and they want to avoid/shut out other people from attaining what they have.
and yes, it is rich. they just don’t feel rich because they are socially isolated from the people who make 25K a year, and they look with envy at the person making 500K, just like that person envies those who make 1mil a year. so on and so on.
for a person making 25K a year, making 250K is unfathomably rich.
Have you spent any time in different classes of society, let alone looking at their behavioral patterns? probably not, sadly very few people do, hence why they are convinced people of different wealth levels are a different species. They aren’t.
your grandma voting against new development in her town to ‘preserve its character’ is the same thing as zuckerberg buying up properties around him to prevent it. it’s a different scale, yes, but the idea is the same, it’s about controlling what is around you and prevent others from altering it because of your preferences.