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.
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.