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  • redballooon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That may be as it is, but that does not make the richest 5% of any population middle class.

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      1 year ago

      It absolutely does when 90% of the wealth is grouped in the top one or two percent.

      The difference between a millionaire and a homeless person is tiny compared to the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t the middle class be centered around the median, which would be completely unaffected by extreme outliers (such as the top 5%)?

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        I suggest you tell the next homeless person that he’s practically a millionaire, when compared to Elon Musk, and see his face light up. He’ll thank you for the really useful reference point that practically gets him off the street.

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          1 year ago

          What’s your point exactly? That a millionaire could fix homelessness? Or do you disagree that 1M minus 0 is much smaller than 1B minus 1M?

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          I agree with you that he’s better off than most people, but do you consider a boomer who bought a house for $150k in 1980, that’s now work $1m in 2023, to be upper class? Technically there’s plenty of upper middle class people worth $1-2m.