What does it take in terms of assets, abilities, and/or income for you to consider them wealthy?

  • rbn@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Personally, I’d consider myself rich. I live in Germany which is already among the richer countries in the world giving me access to an insane amount of infrastructure and opportunities. Furthermore, I work for an IT company and make more money than average and more than I need to satisfy my immediate needs (shelter, food, transportation etc.) and pay for my hobbies (mostly outdoor stuff). I might not be a millionaire and I can’t just retire tomorrow but still I’m very aware of what a huge privilege I have compared to a vast part of humanity.

    Personally, I think already my taxes are too low. Not to start about millionaires or billionaires.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      These folks are always comparing themselves to billionaires. “What am I not a KING!”

      Much the same story as yours. I consider myself filthy rich vs. the rest of modern humanity and obscenely rich vs. historical humanity.

      I think it was Bill Gates who said that all the kings of Europe weren’t wealthy enough to buy the things in a modern grocery store.