in spontaneous daily casual conversation, I definitely say "if I were rich"
but what I meant is more about financial stability & the ability to cover daily food & monthly expenses, and housing
Any time I say "if I were rich", I mean it in the context of the Simpsons episode where Homer's a successful boxer, and can suddenly afford to splurge at a car wash.
I was there for a while. Our rent was low and we could buy whatever we needed.
Then landlords gonna landlord and we were kicked out of our perfect home. Now we own a polished turd and we’re one paycheck away from homelessness because we were forced to buy near our jobs, in 2024 when there was no inventory, and the first one that even came close to being habitable was expensive AF.
The whiplash has fully radicalized me. The landlord class must be dealt with.
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I can't imagine having a solid thing, only to be dumped on the street. I hope one day karma repays you for your patience and punishes those who did you and others wrong.
Nowadays, that means being rich
What do you define as rich?
Having enough money that I don’t have to worry about my expenses
America doesn’t have a middle class and hasn’t for some time. The Republicans worked for decades to destroy it, and they succeeded. You’re either poor or you’re rich.
That's not how that works at all. The middle class is nearly extinct but somewhere around $100k you can attain that not worrying about money status, even buy a humble home. But you're not even close to rich.
I don’t need to be told I’m not rich. I can’t afford my groceries every week. And I’m single, and I certainly don’t make $100,000 a year or anything close to it.
I also don’t need to be told “how it works“. Because I’m living in a system that’s beating me to death every week when I can’t afford to live.
And I know plenty of people who make around $100,000 a year and still can barely afford to pay their mortgage, afford to feed their families, etc. So don’t tell me “how it works” when you clearly don’t understand it yourself. And you sure as fuck don’t know a goddamn thing about my life.
The arrogance of some random Internet stranger, trying to tell me how my own life works… Wow
How are we defining "rich" here? Are we just talking billionaire fuck-you type money? Because in my head, the threshold for "rich", as opposed to simply being well off, is whether or not you have to actually have a day job. And I'd argue that most people want to have the type of wealth where working is optional.
But where goes the power abuse by the rich then?
I don't know how much money that is. I still worry about it every day. To not worry? Yeah. That's billionaire rich.
Nah. I could be there with less than a million.
I think I could not worry about it once I got to 1.5-2 million. On the other hand I also would probably want more because a) human nature and b) what politicians , particularly Republicans, do to the economy on a regular basis. They're pretty great at increasing inflation so I worry that will be more of a factor than ever before.
$10M in treasury bonds is enough for a person
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