• ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Yeah. We usually consider lawyers, doctors, tech people, academics at fancy universities etc. to be rich. But in the grand scheme of things, they’re upper middle class at best. The real rich are all people with generational wealth coming from businesses.

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      19 hours ago

      Who considered these people to be rich? Rich people don’t have to work. Those are working professionals. Manny of them have high debts for the beginning decade of their careers, too

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        People born before the 2010s, roughly. Doctors and lawyers were at one point considered two of the highest earning professions and it’s only been recently that college debt has really been considered a real issue rather than an excuse Millennials made up because they would rather complain about being poor than lift themselves up by their bootstraps.

        For the Baby Boomers, these professions allowed them to buy lots of assets that have since appreciated in value and become generational wealth, and they think the world still works that way.