Say it with me folks:
- “Eat the rich” means 1%ers and billionaires
- middle class is closer to poverty than being a multimillionaire
- “The rich” does NOT include children of billionaires (come on we’re at least slightly better than the plagues of Egypt)
- Upper middle class children SHOULD NOT feel guilt over having money
- Being aware of privilege and using your privilege to help others IS NOT a guilt trip
- Constantly feeling guilty helps no one
- Billionaires, however, should feel guilty over hoarding wealth.
- Upper middle class is NOT rich
- Black Lives Matter
- Trans rights are human rights
My uncle was one of the top surgeons in the country. He was upper middle class definitely. When he got cancer, his insurance didn’t cover all the treatments he would need and after 5 years he drained his savings on cancer treatments (while still working most of that time) and eventually died because he couldn’t afford the expensive treatments that might have saved him.
If you are upper middle class and you get sick, it will likely bankrupt your family. It’s fucked.
For all of the idiots in the notes ^
Honest to god - even if you make 6 figures a year? you’re closer to poverty than true wealth. Check your shit and remember who your real allies and enemies are guys.
A 6 figure income is a lot right?
That’s say: 223,000 dollars a year
Which is 112 dollars an hour.
Most people would consider that upper middle class. That’s enough money to have a nice house, go on fun vacations. That’s slight more than the average doctor makes.223,000 dollars is what Jeff Bezo makes in a minute
the well-off and the rich are not the same.
There was a wonderful study done about 15 years ago I think, that shows that people cannot accurately identify their income bracket. Most people who own a home think they are upper middle class when in fact they are closer to the poverty line. Even people living well below poverty often identify as middle class. The wealth gap is even worse now. I wonder if anyone actually knows their financial standing.
This post is from 2020. Things did not improve.
It’s funny this crossed my dash again today, because I just saw someone do the math, and it ain’t pretty.
The poverty line is being miscalculated based on what things cost in 1963. Cost burdens have shifted so much since then, that the US poverty line isn’t really $31k.
It’s closer to $140k.
Because of how subsidies fall off (medicare eligibility, childcare subsidies, etc.) being between those numbers can be just as hard as or harder than being on the lower end of it.
I’m saying this as someone from Canada who has had no income for ten years, but nevertheless: you should do the math for wherever you’re from, if you can look up things like the local cost of childcare and whatever other metrics are relevant like government programs. You should do that, and you should think about the numbers you come up with, and where you sit in relation to them, and who you’re picking on in the upper range. Or, frankly, the middle range where they really are in the same boat as you after all the costs of participation in society.
The point isn’t “but they can still afford this thing I can’t”. The point is ALL OF US SHOULD BE POINTING OUR KNIVES AND FORKS AT THE BILLIONAIRES AND NOT EACH OTHER!
(via artisticdemoness)
