• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Someone who has maybe one or two million dollars doesn’t even come close to the power that a CEO or major stockholder of a big company wields. If you’re on that level, it’s pretty much impossible to become poor, which very much remains a possibility with 1-2 million.

    Middle class is a thing for a reason, and if you’re going to say that it doesn’t exist because only the owners of capital aren’t working class then the dude with 2 million is still working class.

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      no, i’m saying that unless that 1-2 millionaire started from nothing, he does not know the experience of struggle and eventual relief that is escaping the labour trap

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        And I’m saying that the difference between a low-end millionaire and a billionaire is just as large, if not larger, as the difference between a low-end millionaire and a poor person. People like the CEO he (allegedly) killed don’t view him as a peer.