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[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thing is, I agree with your sentiment, but I'm 95% sure, this will be killed by political interests.

Everyone wants to be middle class, be in reality, a married couple of tenured teachers already is upper class. I'm upper class, since I'm a single software developer.

There was a reform recently, where couples having combined incomes over something like 180k would get less benefits for their children. Hardly anybody would have been affected by this, but the genuine outrage of middle class people was gigantic, because these morons don't want to accept, that they're not rich.

I'm really afraid for our democracy because so many people are willfully stupid. It's not that they're incapable of knowing or understanding, they don't want to understand. For whatever reason....

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No you are not upper class if you are a married couple of teachers, that is exactly the point you made before about people overestimating their place in society. If you have to work to earn money you are not upper class, the upper classes already have so much wealth that they can live off the passive proceeds of that wealth.

Yes your dual income might but you in the top 15% of incomes, but wealth is the defining characteristic of the truly rich not income.

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