But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!
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The problem is that the working poor and the billionaires all think they are middle class. Because poor is for non-whites.
They ate cereal for dinner one night per week. Super middle class. /s
Middle finger class.
Melinda fucking Gates doesn't know what "middle class" means, big shocker there…
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To be fair, by the time you graduate from college, you've already been raised.
Clearly not relatable at all but why do we talk about that all of a sudden? Is it a diversion over something else?
The corporation knows we hate billionaires. They rang the dinner bell and gave us our slop. Now we need to lap it up and generate ad revenue for the business. We need to tell the world: ragebait articles contribute to society, they generate value, it brings in the visitors.
~~Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There's a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.~~
Rich people are so goddamn out of touch with reality.
How do you raise a child “middle class in this house:
Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.
Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There's a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.
Olympic-sized is 50 meters, but your point stands.
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He's such a philantropist
Jennifer Gates, born on April 26, 1996, would have been 22 years old in 2018. All the raising has been done at that point.
I only got a £2 million pony farm for my 18th, and I was raised working class so this makes sense...
She is a commoner. How else could she raise her kids?
“Middle class” isn’t a thing. There’s the working class and the ruling class.
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Akshually. Depending on which definition you use they are middle class. The original meaning of middle class is the wealthy who don’t hold a title. They sit below the aristocracy aka upperclass, and above the peasantry aka the working class. The middle class is also called the bourgeoisie.
i like the original meaning because it made it a lot easier to point at the bourgeois and their politics (which is currently ruining my country and the proletariat is more than willing to lean even harder into their destructive mandates).
in my country/culture, middle class is (or at least was) anyone who have earned a professional title of high esteem. i.e. a doctor. and socially they were highly respected, regardless of actual wealth status. wealthy people used to be targets of ridicule (because they tried to flaunt their wealth in public. i still remember, 20 years ago, how one of our wealthiest individuals were literally crying on TV how no one respected her for wealth and she much preferred american culture. incidentally and totally unrelated; she launched a bunch of reality tv shows about worshipping wealth after that).
unfortunately american social media and said reality TV shows have radically changed how youth and the younger generation identify "status". i always hear about how they will be rich one day and buy a super mansion. but if you ask what the purpose of that is; they couldn't explain it - it's just what they're told to desire.
so from my perspective, the next 2-3 generations are on a path to ruin in the name of capital ownership for the few.
Lol "middle class"... Does anyone know a middle class family? I just see people with money, and people who don't have enough. That's the real world... Maybe long ago there was a middle class?
I've met people who had enough but not too much. Never hurting for money, one vacation a year out of state but not out of the country, bought cars new but drove them for decades. Working class, but comfortable.
Yeah, some still exists, most have gone the way of the dodo
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/
Diminished sure, but still the largest group.
Never forget that Bill's mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy's software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.
She wasn’t on the board of directors of IBM, she was on another board which the CEO of IBM was also on.
It’s a distinction without a difference, but still.
and gates has to reinvent his image with his "charity work" he still a ruthless businessman, and countries complained about his vaccine requirements as well.
Ok.
They mean billionaire middleclass.
I think they actually do. $16 million is like weekend money for them, I’m guessing
They don’t even spend that money, as is all billionaire spending. They borrow against their assets and profit enough to pay back the loan so they literally don’t spend money by using that credit line to buy more assets. Gates, bezos, musk, etc. depending on their market situation they could literally take a piss and be 16 million dollars richer or poorer and it wouldn’t matter.
It's insanely broken and dangerous. If money was gravity they'd be black holes, disrupting everything in the galaxy. Someday we'll all be gone, and all that's left will be one self-important machine counting all the money in the world until its circuits burn out. The heat death of capitalism.
What could a horse ranch cost? $10?
So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don't engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.
Well, okay, if that's upper class then what size ranches do middle class people buy for their kids' graduation?
You crazy LEGO is crazy expensive!
Mattel brand. Less cost on maintenance also.
She means she told them to hold their wallet around the blacks in the city, and that only feminine gays are acceptable.
only feminine gays are acceptable.
I'm out of the loop for this. Is this something middle class families believe?
probably confusing it with UPPER middle class people, which are nowhere near middle class.
Even then, is there anyone, apart from TV execs who only cast stereotypes, who think masculine gays aren't acceptable?
Its middle class, how much do they need to spend on graduation? 1mil? Yeah, we'll go 16mil and be the most middle class.
Rich people always, without exception, fail to recognize their own disconnections from reality.
These motherfuckers clearly need to be paying more taxes.
Something Bill Gates actually agrees with. He's one of the super rich who has been outspoken about the rich needing to pay more taxes.
Something Bill Gates actually agrees with
It's always interesting to me how people bring this up regarding Gates and Buffett, as if that makes their largesse and greed at the expense of others perfectly acceptable. It's easy to say you support something when you know you're never going to be held accountable for following through.
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