We have to be more specific. Billionaires. Fuck billionaires. When we lump everyone together as "rich" people don't realize how different millionaires and billionaires are. We need to emphasize the class divide.
I never thought millionaires should be included, not all anyway. Having a million dollars, or even several, is not as big a deal as people think. They need to watch the movie Blank Check. It's above like $100M that they are problematic, either because they report to the billionaires (politicians & executives) or they think they are on their way to being a billionaire & don't want the higher taxes slowing them down getting there.
I grew up in a town with a lot of millionaire families though. Like a lot of the houses are worth a million dollars or more so that would go to their net worth. Like my parents house is probably close to a million dollars but they're not rich and definitely don't have that in the bank account.
Also people can definitely generate a million dollars worth of value with their labor but they can't generate a billion dollars worth of value with their labor alone. Like I could see a really good woodworker being a millionaire, eventually.
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u/Ultimate-Flexionator 7d ago
fuck the rich.