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Originally posted by CET
The line has to be drawn somewhere and that's simply where this author chose to draw the line of "wealthy". I've already been through this, and if you still don't get it then you're just being willfully ignorant.
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The line has to be drawn somewhere, yes. However, drawing that line at a certain amount of money without any other specifications is fairly stupid.
First of all, relative wealth is a much more important factor in determining mobility within society (and that was the context in which you quoted the statistic) than absolute wealth, for obvious reasons. So, a better line would be "the richest 10%", or something of the sort.
Secondly, determining absolute wealth by a set amount of money instead of inflation-corrected purchasing power is positively bizarre.
If you're gonna use statistics as arguments, you should be able to explain and justify them as well.
I think the problem isn't that I'm being willfully ignorant, but that you're being unintentionally ignorant.