re: #319 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I live in an area of the country that …ahem… distorts one’s picture of what’s normal. And I grew up in a family that was solidly upper middle class, so I have my own blinders to deal with even before that, and I still wrestle with what would I consider to be actually “rich.” It’s easy to see with the mega-wealthy.

It becomes a lot harder with where you draw the line otherwise. Is it based on saved wealth? Income including work? Income independent of working? I don’t have good answers to these questions and very often everyone has their own definition they’re working from anyway, and nobody spells out what it is before talking about these topics so I wonder how much we’re really understanding each other.

It would be nice if we didn’t have so many fucked up conventions about money in this country, to the point where it’s nearly impossible to have a conversation about it. But here we are.

Long ago (XX Cent) sociologists found that most Americans considered themselves Middle Class, despite a wild range in their incomes.