be free - I am

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beedle:

“Eat the rich” means 1%ers and billionaires

middle class is closer to poverty than being a multimillionaire

“The rich” does NOT include children of billionaires (come on we’re at least slightly better than the plagues of Egypt)

Upper middle class children SHOULD NOT feel guilt over having money

Being aware of privilege and using your privilege to help others IS NOT a guilt trip

Constantly feeling guilty helps no one

Billionaires, however, should feel guilty over hoarding wealth.

Upper middle class is NOT rich

Black Lives Matter

223,000 dollars is what Jeff Bezo makes in a minute

The poverty line is being miscalculated based on what things cost in 1963. Cost burdens have shifted so much since then, that the US poverty line isn't really $31k.

It's closer to $140k.

Because of how subsidies fall off (medicare eligibility, childcare subsidies, etc.) being between those numbers can be just as hard as or harder than being on the lower end of it.

I'm saying this as someone from Canada who has had no income for ten years, but nevertheless: you should do the math for wherever you're from, if you can look up things like the local cost of childcare and whatever other metrics are relevant like government programs. You should do that, and you should think about the numbers you come up with, and where you sit in relation to them, and who you're picking on in the upper range. Or, frankly, the middle range where they really are in the same boat as you after all the costs of participation in society.