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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by jonnycomputer on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:55PM (#30075263)
There are the rich and then there are the really rich, and then there are the unbelievably rich. I'll happily call a family earning 500k/y on two salaries in a small town where a million dollar home is literally a mansion on a hill "rich". Because they are. They just aren't as rich as the Trumps or Bezoss of the world.
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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by KerrAvon on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:17PM (#30075644)
What do you intend to connote by saying someone is "rich," though? What does it signify?

If the definition of "rich" is "independently wealthy," that family certainly doesn't meet it. They still have to work for a living.

If it means you never have to worry about where the next meal is coming from or losing the roof over your head, sure, a lot of people are "rich." And maybe this is better than 90% of humanity does, but it's still not a reasonable first world standard for being "rich" IMHO.

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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by pessimizer on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:28PM (#30076750)
> They still have to work for a living.

No they don't. They could live in a median dwelling with a median income indefinitely on the interest of what they've saved over the past few years.

If you're saying that they have to work for the living that they're accustomed to, so does Musk.

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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by jonnycomputer on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:47PM (#30076120)
Their modes of thought, their concerns and worries, their expectations, their assumptions of what is possible, their habits, their identities, all different.
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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by gamechaynes on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:50PM (#30077069)
She said: 'I am loosing every time!'

He answered: 'No, you are often winning, but when you lose you lose way too high.'

(-;

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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by jonnycomputer on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:44PM (#30076063)
What does not calling them rich signify?
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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by bushbaba on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:10PM (#30075515)
It hit me when I saw a 3MM home in Tampa vs 3MM in Bay Area. I think many’s definition of money is skewed from living in hcol cities.
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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by sseagull on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:43PM (#30076039)
One of my favorite quotes on the topic:

"Shaq is rich. The white man that signs his check, is wealthy." [Chris Rock]

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