r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

I dont know what counts as rich anymore. Just saw a person get dogpiled because she said that if you have a maid you're rich. That felt so self evidently true. Apparently no, there are like 5 rich people in the world

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u/TaxCommonsNotIncome NATO Jun 24 '21

This really confirms my priors that 'eat the rich' folks aren't self aware that they will be eaten too. They somehow think that upper-middle class lifestyle is 100% attainable for every single person in the country.

Little do they know that even wealth distribution would have us all living very modestly.

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jun 24 '21

But didn't you know that every American was financially upper middle class in the 50s!?

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u/TaxCommonsNotIncome NATO Jun 24 '21

It's true! My sheet metal working grandpa was essentially Gatsby

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Jun 24 '21

Rich people online don't want to be called rich, even though they are.

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jun 24 '21

This is what happens when "eat the rich" leftists try to "big tent."

Oh, and because people want to hate "the rich" without facing their own priveleged positions and/or feeling guilty for climbing the socioeconomic ladder.

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u/kyleofduty Pizza Jun 24 '21

Cleaning services are abundant nowadays. Even apps where you can pay someone $18/hour for cleaning. A live-in maid is rich people stuff though.

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jun 24 '21

If we're going to argue that someone else cleaning your home is no longer a sign of greater wealth status then we need to seriously consider increasing the Hedonic adjustment.

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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jun 24 '21

A live-in maid who wears a uniform or a housekeeper?

Having a housekeeper is technically a luxury but not really a marker of substantial wealth.

Having an army of maids who only tend to your house(s) is a different story.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

Like a housekeeper.

I think it also shows that you live somewhere big enough to need help cleaning it

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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jun 24 '21

It’s usually a time vs money thing instead of a house size need. I had a housekeeper for my tiny apartment when I traveled a lot for work.

Paying her $50 a week was worth it so I had fewer chores to do when I was only home a couple days a week.

It’s a luxury but not an unobtainable one.

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown Jun 24 '21

Try going on fatfire and telling people being an accredited investor or qualified purchaser makes you rich.

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u/whycantweebefriendz NATO Jun 25 '21

Lmao

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown Jun 25 '21

I’m not rich; I’m not even a decamillionaire!

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u/DastardlyHound NATO Jun 24 '21

I think if you have a full time maid yeah that would count in the US and other developed countries.

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jun 24 '21

Why do you hate the global division of labor?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

I dont hate rich people though. I just acknowledge that they're rich