minus-squareGuyLivingHere@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day ago“I always take the middle class as the threshold where you have sufficient passive income … Examples would be landlords” Please don’t bring parasites into this linkfedilink
minus-squareGuyLivingHere@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThanks linkfedilink
minus-squareGuyLivingHere@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoFair enough, but in a more just system, the impoverished class would barely exist, if at all. linkfedilink
minus-squareGuyLivingHere@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoHa! Many thanks linkfedilink
minus-squareGuyLivingHere@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertylinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·2 days agoThere is no ‘middle’ class. There is only ownership and labour. linkfedilink
“I always take the middle class as the threshold where you have sufficient passive income … Examples would be landlords”
Please don’t bring parasites into this