elandrialore:quillionaire:comcastkills:crispy-nippletopia:comcastkills:So many rich people outside o
elandrialore:quillionaire:comcastkills:crispy-nippletopia:comcastkills:So many rich people outside of politics also assume this. They’re desperate to label themselves as middle class for some reason.It is middle class tho…..Can I be you?All right, I’m a kid who grew up in a household with a comparable salary to the above, and let me tell all you people who are like me what is happening to you.You are used to seeing wealth on a spectrum, and can see people who are richer than you by a factor of ten and poorer by a factor of ten in the same city. That makes you feel - perhaps rightly - that you are middle class in that you sit in between two starkly different poles. Except really, you aren’t.What you’re not understanding is the experience of wealth by distribution. The people who live above you are, by income, .01% of the population. The people that live below you? 98%. We may be in “the middle” by how much we have, but we are in the top 2% of Americans by having that much.Your false conception of being middle class has been shaped by design. The more we understand the “average” (i.e., “middle”) American to be wealthy, the easier it to vilify the poor as “lazy” to justify tax policy that favors the wealthy.What’re you gonna do with this information? Here are some good ideas:- Start referring to yourself as part of the 1%, owning it makes shifting your perspective easier.- Use your economic status to fight politically for higher wages, unions, and wage parity along gender and race.- Donate more of your income to services that provide for lower income households.- Show support for tax increases in your tax bracket amongst your peers.- Reconsider your consumption. Along with being upper class goes higher rates of consumption of unsustainable resources because we can afford it. Stop that shit.A few weeks ago there was a big push on radio and tv about something called Lucky for Life. The Grand Prize is $1000 a day for the rest of your life. To someone like me, that amount of money is a ridiculously large amount and would go a long way to making my life and my family’s lives easier.I could literally win the Grand Prize in a lottery in addition to my current income and I would still not be middle class to these people. -- source link