• Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Wtf are you talking about? You must be a billionaire.

    This family earns more than the value of my house in a year.

    If they carry on earning this and work for 30 years they will have amassed a fortune of £10m.

    It also puts the family in the top 0.5% of earners in the country.

    I think that makes them fairly rich.

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      4 days ago

      Do you understand that your logic doesn’t make any sense? First of all, half of their income goes into taxes. Second - they still need to spend money on bills, food, etc. So it will take them a lot more than 30 years to get to £10m. They won’t live as long.

      You’re also confusing top earning workers with the rich.

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        3 days ago

        My logic? Even if the income figure is gross and not nett, they are part of the top 0.5% earners in the UK. So… Logically… They can be considered rich by the 99.5% of the population who earn less. They are almost certainly millionaires. Their kids go to public school. They take 5 holidays a year FFS, how many people do you know who can afford that? If you don’t consider that being rich then you are either richer than that, being a troll or deluded.