Rich people always, without exception, fail to recognize their own disconnections from reality.

These motherfuckers clearly need to be paying more taxes.

What could a horse ranch cost? $10?

Much like the soon to be german chancellor, who told an interviewer, that he is upper middle class. All that while being a former Blackrock manager and owning (and using regularily) a personal private jet. Thats some kind of chancellor material...

“Middle class” isn’t a thing. There’s the working class and the ruling class.

I want to be this middle class...

Lol "middle class"... Does anyone know a middle class family? I just see people with money, and people who don't have enough. That's the real world... Maybe long ago there was a middle class?

Well, okay, if that's upper class then what size ranches do middle class people buy for their kids' graduation?

and gates has to reinvent his image with his "charity work" he still a ruthless businessman, and countries complained about his vaccine requirements as well.

In 2018, Bill Gates' net worth was approximately $90 billion. His estimated income was around $12 billion, according to estimates from Business Insider.

In 2018, the median net worth of an American household was $101,800. I chose median cause these billionaires drastically skew the mean. The median household income was $63,179.

If an average American household gave the same scale of gift in 2018, based on household income, the gift would be $83.29, and based on net worth, it'd be $17.89.

Maybe that's why these 1%ers wealth hoard so hard, maybe they genuinely think they ARE middle class.

When you are a billionaire a $16m ranch is middle class.

So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don't engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.

How do you raise a child “middle class in this house:

Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.

The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.

I know people want to hate on Bill for being rich, and I can understand that, but I still prefer him to a certain South African billionaire.

Maybe some people will say that's like comparing a giant douche to a turd sandwich though.

These rich people are so disconnected from the actual reality that the rest of us live in that it's not funny. And to make matters worse, a lot of these rich people see themselves as visionaries and leaders. Imagine that, blind visionaries. And to make matters even worse than that, a lot of people worship these 'visionaries' that can't even picture what life is like without billions of dollars, as if they have all the answers.

To be fair, out of all the billionaires they at least have made attempts to not make their kids shiteheads which is in stark contrast to most billionaires. At one point in time at least, they were only leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else.

Is that enough to live better than 99.99% of us? Absolutely. But it's also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.

Its middle class, how much do they need to spend on graduation? 1mil? Yeah, we'll go 16mil and be the most middle class.

Gates may be one of the better billionaires, but it's still like comparing prostate cancer to brain cancer.

Never forget that Bill's mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy's software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.

No one really seems to know what middle class is anymore. Both the family that is one missed paycheck from being homeless and the one lobbying their state for school vouchers so they can repurpose the cost of their kids' private school tuition to their college fund think they're middle class.

Melinda fucking Gates doesn't know what "middle class" means, big shocker there…

Middle finger class.

The problem is that the working poor and the billionaires all think they are middle class. Because poor is for non-whites.

How much can a banana cost, Michael? $10?

To be fair, by the time you graduate from college, you've already been raised.

At least he's relatively philanthropic, Mush and Bezilbub don't even try to make other peoples lives better.

I only got a £2 million pony farm for my 18th, and I was raised working class so this makes sense...

I worry more about the actual rent-seeking oligarchy in my part of the world running for political positions in next month's elections, purely for feudalistic reasons.