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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think one requirement for being wealthy is to have the  option to not work.  Not sure if you are wealthy, no matter how much you have, without this option. [/quote]

Many, many DC homeowners could sell their home $1.5M home, move somewhere a few hours away & never work again.[/quote]

+1, and if you are making 500k in DC on dual income, odds are good that you could live simply for a few years, sock it away, and then move to a place with lower COL and never truly work again, having no debt and mostly living of investment proceeds.

The issue is that what OP is describing as the proletariat includes a lot of people with constantly evolving lifestyles. And the evolution of the lifestyle is sort of the point, because it's how they prove their "success" to others. It is not enough to have a nice home, kids in private schools, to take nice vacations and to simply not worry about ever having to work for food and housing again. It is necessary to always be grasping for newer/more/better in all categories, to prove that you are not merely well off but moving always in an upwardly mobile direction.

I don't think Marx applies because I think the advance stage of capitalism we now live in has produced a category of people who are so warped by the dictates of capitalism (more more more) that they are unable to recognize their own secure position. They grasp like peasantry despite having the resources of the bourgeoisie. I suppose, yes, they are proletariat, but the group OP is talking about (people making incomes of 500k+) do not actually HAVE to work these jobs to survive or even to thrive. They choose to, but pretend it is not a choice. It's like a mental illness.[/quote]

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