• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      Um, aren’t you doing exactly what billionaires do by assuming everyone is in their same socioeconomic situation?

      Less than 10% of people over 45 have more than a million dollars and and most of those are married couples.

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        15 hours ago

        Are you talking about people with like 10s or 100s of millions or are you including people with just 1 million? In a number of places, you basically cannot easily buy a house without something approaching 1 million (which is a problem itself).

        Also, I’ve seen this statement here several times now. Where is the line? 1 million is a pretty arbitrary value, so how many thousands is too much?

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            13 hours ago

            Good luck I guess. Looking it up briefly gives US families having $1+ million net worth being in the 80th or 90th percentile (depending on the source), so somewhere between 1/5 and 1/10 families.

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        19 hours ago

        The only reason millionaires shouldn’t exist is to abolish capitalism, which while reasonable does not sound like what your only meaning is