• wpb@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you can send your son to a 12k a year prep school, I consider you rich. If you can donate 50k to democrats, I consider you rich. Can you do that? I can’t.

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      He went there for three months and it was on a scholarship. Enough with the fake outrage about his " working class creds". He is a harbourmaster and and works on his boat. That is a working class guy.

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      Maybe I’m getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.