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To be fair, a million dollars in some parts of the US gets you a decent size house and one car. You still need to work every day. You can still be bankrupt by medical debt.
Contrast that with actual rich folks who can burn a million dollars in a bon fire every morning and still have more money at the end of the year than they started with.
Point is: The former are more comfortable than many. The latter are a literal cancer on society that must be addressed.
I know man but with a million bucks you can choose to move somewhere cheap to live. The rest of us can't do that because there aren't good jobs in the cheap areas. There's plenty of beautiful homes for $200k in my state but there all in the middle of nowhere 3 hour drive from the closest city that has a hospital.
Okay, let's say I move somewhere cheap. Now I have a million bucks.
I can't retire. Still got to work. Still need health insurance. Still at the whims of the fate of the universe.
Is it more comfortable? Sure! I'd love that. But these people aren't the problem. The yacht with the garage for a smaller yacht in it is the problem.
I mean yeah it's cheap so you can retire there lol, but those people are a problem because they're still trying to become billionaires and also they're the soldiers of the billionaires. For $100k a year theyre the ones denying good insurance claims and areesting peaceful protestors, Bezos and Musk themselves don't hurt society with their own bodies, they pay upper middle class folk to do that for them. Then they retire with a mil or two in the bank and them blame the people they agreed to work for their whole lives.
I guess it depends what people consider the "millionaire lifestyle", which must go up with inflation like everything else.
a decent size house and a car ≠ abject poverty
You realize that there are options in-between those, right?
Yes i do and i totally agree with your point, just pointing at a flaw in your reasoning
Oh, I'm still not seeing it. Sorry.
The top 1% are cancer on society. Quite literally. They consume resources and expand to the point where it kills the host.
People in the top 20%, excluding the 1%, aren't like that. They're surely more comfortable. They surely have better opportunity. But their existence doesn't threaten the rest of us.
The comment you replied to states "The rich will claim you’re driving them to abject poverty if you tax them into only having a million dollars."
You say people with $1.000.000 still have to work, they are not "actual rich folk". But that's not relevant to the comment you reply to, since them "having to work all day" and them still being able to be "bankrupt by medical debt" still doesn't equal the abject poverty the rich claim they'll be driven to. In other words, it doesn't matter that people with one million are not in the same position as the people with ten million, because neither would be living in abject poverty; ergo my comment.
That classifies people with 2 million as rich. I'm saying that even with 5 million you need to keep working.
I'm saying whether you need to keep working or not is not relevant, since it in neither case does owning that amount equal to abject poverty.