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shofarsogood: biglawbear: tepkunset: incognitopolls: Would you consider someone who makes $65,000 USD per year to be rich? Yes No See Results We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls. Who the fuck is voting no and can you please give me your money? Sincerely someone who makes about $17,000 a year Someone who makes $65k may not be “as poor” as someone who makes $17k a year but that doesn’t make them rich. You’re both still pretty damn poor. They’re only making about $31 an hour. This is how much my mom makes as a nurse, an “essential worker.” She has just enough money to pay her bills. She lives in a tiny, crappy house. Her car is ancient and falling apart. She doesn’t have enough money to pay for all the healthcare she needs, including $20,000 of dental work she can never afford. When I lived with her and she was a single mom, we could never afford the doctor and could barely afford food sometimes. She will never be able to retire. How tf do you think that is rich? Frankly, my mom is still poor. Your enemy isn’t the person makes $65,000, or even some doctor or lawyer making $165,000. It’s the people making billions off of everyone else’s labor. You can’t eat the rich if you think every single person making more money than you is rich. The working class is incredibly large. It’s hard to survive on $65k and harder to survive on $17k. Neither one is comfortable. The legal definition of poverty is something like… if you lost all incoming money tomorrow, you would not be able to last 3 months without being homeless. Dont quote me on it, but that was a definition I read once that stuck with me. Three months worth of rent and bills in savings/assets in order to be considered above the poverty line.

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shofarsogood: biglawbear: tepkunset: incognitopolls: Would you consider someone who makes $65,000 USD per year to be rich? Yes No See Results We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls. Who the fuck is voting no and can you please give me your money? Sincerely someone who makes about $17,000 a year Someone who makes $65k may not be “as poor” as someone who makes $17k a year but that doesn’t make them rich. You’re both still pretty damn poor. They’re only making about $31 an hour. This is how much my mom makes as a nurse, an “essential worker.” She has just enough money to pay her bills. She lives in a tiny, crappy house. Her car is ancient and falling apart. She doesn’t have enough money to pay for all the healthcare she needs, including $20,000 of dental work she can never afford. When I lived with her and she was a single mom, we could never afford the doctor and could barely afford food sometimes. She will never be able to retire. How tf do you think that is rich? Frankly, my mom is still poor. Your enemy isn’t the person makes $65,000, or even some doctor or lawyer making $165,000. It’s the people making billions off of everyone else’s labor. You can’t eat the rich if you think every single person making more money than you is rich. The working class is incredibly large. It’s hard to survive on $65k and harder to survive on $17k. Neither one is comfortable. The legal definition of poverty is something like… if you lost all incoming money tomorrow, you would not be able to last 3 months without being homeless. Dont quote me on it, but that was a definition I read once that stuck with me. Three months worth of rent and bills in savings/assets in order to be considered above the poverty line.

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