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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The flip side to this is what does it feel like to be wealthy? Most people coming from middle class or lower class expect perks like never having to clean, cook, do maintenance, yard work. Likely you can do less of this. For example, I’ve hired people to deep clean for 20 years. But I’m still the one getting stains out of my kids’ clothes and making dinner every night. I still call the hospital and go through their bills by line item. You can have 8 figures worth of assets and your actual day-to-day won’t differ much from Clarissa Explains it All or any other TV show about a “typical” middle class family.

What these people do forget in their disappointment of not getting “perks” they thought they would get they still have economic security, choices and luxuries beyond others including healthcare and education.

The problem is Hollywood. And healthcare and education. Hollywood presents a world ignorant of the latter. It also sells an image of the rich being private jet rich, where rich really means able to afford high quality health care, education and relative economic security.[/quote]

Youve basically stated being rich is what middle class was in the 90s[/quote]

Sort of. But also I think there was more class separation and less cross-class discussion in the 90s. In the 90s being a multimillionaire was considered rich, but multimillionaires were still cooking, cleaning and driving their kids to school. I think there’s always been a fantasy of wealth as being like nirvana or heaven or this wonderful land of luxe. That really doesn’t match up to the income and assets required for that life.

I do think in the 90s healthcare and education were more manageable. So two teachers might have had more economic security.

It’s really going back to the 40s when two teachers had a life more similar to a CEOs. Keep in mind even then that the CEOs life looked pretty Donna Reed.

We have a messed up idea of how the wealthy live. That confuses what’s going on with the two teachers who are actually middle class.[/quote]

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