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[quote=Anonymous]I can always rebut with why do poor people keep insisting everyone with more money must be rich?

Let's talk about "rich." What does it mean? There's the stereotype from movies of genuine mansions with long winding driveways, private jets, butlers, amazingly manicured lawns and pedigreed poodles and jetting to Paris for the fashion shows. I'm sure at a certain level there's minimal disagreement that so and so is rich. By contrast, a 700k HHI from a couple each working 55 hours a week and living in a $2M Bethesda house isn't quite the same thing. For starters, if both stopped working or lost jobs, that income disappears overnight. There's too many variations going on for "rich" to be applicable in the same way it is for the person with multiple $10M properties.

I've noticed you can tell more about the people obsessed with classifying people as rich than the actual higher income people.

End of the day, it's a meaningless obsession. I'd advise OP to stop worrying about affluent people and focus more on their own lives.[/quote]

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