There’s also the indentured servants. Skilled/ educated workers that live a comfortable life and have their own home, but if they stop working they’ll lose their house and have to tap into retirement savings, which will basically make them poor within 10 years. I’m in that group. Under 45, over half a mil in my retirement fund and about 160k liquid, still have 95k left on my mortgage with a rate below 4%. Kids are all under 10, and have at least 150k in their trust fund.
Theoretically I’m well off… But if I lose my main stream of income, things will cascade quickly.
I fucking despise Trump, but most of his actual voters are in my social caste… If not just poor and uneducated
As someone “ordinary rich”, it is acceptable to also call me “useful idiot who turns over power and influence to the real rich in exchange for an empty promise of joining them”.
The real rich (don’t have to work)
The rich (earn lots of money, have enough assets to coast of needed)
The poor (anyone who already is, or would end up on the street if they stopped working for a couple years.)
There’s also the indentured servants. Skilled/ educated workers that live a comfortable life and have their own home, but if they stop working they’ll lose their house and have to tap into retirement savings, which will basically make them poor within 10 years. I’m in that group. Under 45, over half a mil in my retirement fund and about 160k liquid, still have 95k left on my mortgage with a rate below 4%. Kids are all under 10, and have at least 150k in their trust fund.
Theoretically I’m well off… But if I lose my main stream of income, things will cascade quickly.
I fucking despise Trump, but most of his actual voters are in my social caste… If not just poor and uneducated
As someone “ordinary rich”, it is acceptable to also call me “useful idiot who turns over power and influence to the real rich in exchange for an empty promise of joining them”.