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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
It's not Sliver's fault for wanting a second house. Or the oligarch's for wanting a yacht.
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This is the crux of my problem with this whole attitude - Sliver and people in his economic situation are
nothing like oligarchs.
It's just the "everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot and everyone who drives faster than me is a maniac" thing, but in the context of earnings. It's like everyone who earns more money than the average person gets lumped together as "the problem". There is a vast difference from someone who is well-off - say, making $400k in taxable income in a year as a surgeon, or running a small business that's doing well, and a guy with $30 million in net worth making smart investment bets and earning passive income. And there's then another massive difference between that guy and a billionaire. It's like comparing someone who works minimum wage in Calgary to a poor person in Somalia - your entire outlook is too simplistic.