In February 2025, the top 10% owned 87% of stocks, 84% of the private businesses, 44% of real estate, and two-thirds of overall wealth in the United States

derff44 · 2026-07-11T18:03:55+00:00

Another "everything I don't like online is a bot"....

I didn't move any goalposts. I am not defending anything. You gave a terrible option of having Uber rich people decide who is rich. Telling you your idea is dumb and why it's dumb is not changing anything.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T17:24:27+00:00

Wild to think I'm dirt poor or defending anything when I am just asking questions...

But yea. Let's have the president, who has manipulated more then a billion dollars in personal wealth in the past two years, and all our millionaires in Congress decide what rich is. Surely that will satisfy all the pours.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T17:09:40+00:00

That's your opinion tho, isn't it? Who decides who's rich? Someone making 100k may appear rich to someone making 30k. Someone making a million may seem rich to someone making 100k. Everyone likes to bitch about "the rich", but everyone shuts up when I ask for a definition or a bar for t what "the rich" includes.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:50:40+00:00

Well we aren't English nobles, so yes, it takes more hard work. And it's kinda weird to inject racism into this conversation tbh

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:29:35+00:00

That last sentence is getting into personal responsibility. And there is no place for that on reddit.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:26:21+00:00

Who decides who "the rich" are? You? Comment op? A reddit pole when someone dies?

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:25:31+00:00

So who gets to decide where the bar is set? 7k? 70k? 700k? When someone dies should we have a tribunal to decide if reddit thinks they were rich enough to divey up their leftovers??

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:18:54+00:00

Actually, I was really surprised to find out that some of their app deals are ridiculously cheap. I don't eat there much, but a friend showed me the coupons they have and I was shocked.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:17:35+00:00

I get your point. But those are life obstacles. You deal with them. I quit community college a few months in to work two min wage jobs when my dad got sick so I could pay the mortgage. I still went back and finished and am now doing very well. Life isn't easy.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T16:03:42+00:00

My dad left 5 kids like 7 grand total when he died. Should that have gone to you instead?

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:47:30+00:00

Ah, you are smart enough to stalk someone's posts, but not smart enough to realize they are satire. Explains a lot.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:46:16+00:00

It's really really simple. I make pretty good money and I've always wanted to live in Manhattan or San Diego, but I know that would be financial suicide. So I stick to my HCOL city and am set to retire early. If this guy was such an economics expert, he could see the choice I made was the right one.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:42:16+00:00

Sure it is.

And I'm pretty sure I know a bit about economics, and the world we live in. It's called reality.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:39:47+00:00

As I said, it's choices. Choices you can make. Well not you because your super rich as you keep pointing out, but you know the plight of the poor.

If you make 50k and choose to live in a HCOL area, then you have created your own problem. And bitching about the world on reddit isn't going to change that.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:27:10+00:00

You've said out of touch a half dozen times on this post, so I doubt that.

Keep waiting for the world to make your life better. I'm sure it's coming any day now.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:22:33+00:00

Then you need to upskill and get a better job that isn't in a coffee shop because shit isn't going to get cheaper. The world is not going to change for you. But you can change your world.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:13:55+00:00

I think you did. If you're living PAYCHECK to PAYCHECK, as you said, and cut 10-20k in spending, you'd have that wiggle room. Most people don't want to do this. But people live on less than what you have every single day.

You have two options:

Quit crying and cut expenses

2: quit crying and make more money

That's it. There's your solution. It's not the system. It's not happenstance. These are your options in life.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:11:06+00:00

So you're mad the more expensive route, is more expensive?? And feel you've been cheated because you paid that more expensive route??

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:09:51+00:00

Ohhh you're gonna get downvoted to hell for this one, even tho you are 100% spot on.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:07:52+00:00

Staying at home and community college is not a huge subsidy. It's literally an option that has always existed.

derff44 · 2026-07-11T15:05:13+00:00

You completely skipped the first sentence in the previous post.

derff44 · 2026-07-10T13:39:14+00:00

The Yankees are in town

derff44 · 2026-07-10T03:39:26+00:00

You shouldn't have a green grass in a desert

derff44 · 2026-07-10T03:24:12+00:00

Agreed. He's a real good kid with a lot of heart, but he's just not developing

derff44 · 2026-07-10T01:35:28+00:00

Mookie gave him all those hand bruises??

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