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Originally Posted by FlyWf
I mean, I couldn't do better if I tried. "Rich people have no conception of how well off they are" being followed by rich people disagreeing with me by displaying no conception of how well off they are?
Well, that's the problem. When you say people "don't know how well off they are", what you mean is "they don't truly understand how poor people live", which is
not the same thing. Like, at all. I have a thorough understanding of how well off I am. I have a thorough understanding of the lifestyle of the typical Canadian. I also know that when people start talking about "the rich" in a political context they are imagining someone with a much, much more luxuriant lifestyle than I have, which has been demonstrated conclusively with the "private schools and new cars for teenagers" talk in this thread. The bottom line is that there is a clear disconnect between what someone who makes $50,000 per year thinks about the lifestyle of
everyone who makes $250,000 per year and reality, so when that person says "
everyone making $250,000 per year is rich", they're wrong. They're wrongness is apparent in their stated vision of what the lifestyle of someone making that much money is, and what the actual lifestyle is for many people in that income range making reasonable choices. That stated vision is a fact, that reality is a fact, and they aren't the same thing. There's an objective wrongness here.
As usual, this discussion begs for "someness". The categorization of all peoples everywhere all making $250,000 per year as all rich is clearly wrong because of the "allness". The failure (or refusal) to deal with someness/allness is a perpetual theme in political discourse and persistently and predictably leads to wrong conclusions. This is one such example.