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They do, it's called a house.
Owning 25% of a 400k house isn't the same as having 400k in wealth.
If everyone has 400k then it's not wealth. It's table stakes.
Wealth means the assets you own. Has nothing to do with someone being rich or not. Please keep stupid comments like this to yourself.
So I can be wealthy without being rich?
You can have wealth without being wealthy.
Which is what I said.
Using alternate definitions/forms of words than the people you're conversing with doesn't make your little strawmen, good arguments.