• foggy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “could” affect “possible” wealth tax?

    Like, what the fuck. Is it not written on the wall for you all already? Middle class does not exist. If you have less than $500k in income and less than $1.5M in the bank, you are poor.

    As fuck

    Next to these cartoon evil villain scrooge mcducks.

    We need a maximum level of wealth at which your assets just freeze and no one lets you have any more stuff. Or something. Or guillotines. Idk. Id prefer the former, but we’ll see how this whole “free market” experiment ends up soon enough.

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      2 years ago

      If you have less than $500k in income and less than $1.5M in the bank, you are poor.

      As fuck

      If you live in NYC, this may be true! But not for the overwhelming majority of this country, or the world for that matter.

      Source? Me. I have far less than $1.5m in assets, not just cash in the bank, and I make far, far less than $500k/year. I do fine. Own my own home, even.

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        2 years ago

        Yes.

        You are 100% poor as fuck next to to the likes of anyone in the .1%

        You are not middle class (there is no middle class). You are down here with me making 90k and 6 figures in the bank, and the McDonald’s worker making 20k with no savings.

        We are all far more alike than we are anything like them.

        If your house gets aced by a natural disaster and insurance doesn’t pay out, you lose income and health insurance and break a leg, and then get cancer.

        How’s your finances? You still good?

        Likely not.

        They are.