I find interesting your wealthy classification.
What is the difference between the first two? I can't figure it out.
It's the difference between someone who can maintain a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of their life if they don't go overboard, and someone who has enough money to start pursuing other ventures at cost. This comes with a whole lot of changes like losing most of your 'poor people' friend circle and rubbing shoulders with impactful people.
As the creator of Minecraft put it:
>Once I realized I had fuck-you money and didn't care about my public image any more because it didn't affect my day to day life in any way
Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich
by averagewall on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:50AM
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Everything you said can be applied either to the 1% in America or the Americans in the world. Both are about in the top 1% of richness and both have those privileges among their respective 99%s.
There's a strata of poor to somewhat rich, but they're all in the same bucket of the grander wealth scale: workers. They must keep doing work in order to maintain their lifestyle, the only thing their relative income difference dictates is the quality of that lifestyle and how long they can maintain it after losing income.
After that comes 'i don't need to work again' wealthy. Then 'fuck you' wealthy. Then 'I can ignore the law' wealthy. Then 'I can buy the law' wealthy. The 99% sits on the lowest rung on the meaningful wealth scale.