A Boring Dystopia

Rich people always, without exception, fail to recognize their own disconnections from reality.

These motherfuckers clearly need to be paying more taxes.

What could a horse ranch cost? $10?

Much like the soon to be german chancellor, who told an interviewer, that he is upper middle class. All that while being a former Blackrock manager and owning (and using regularily) a personal private jet. Thats some kind of chancellor material...

They mean billionaire middleclass.

I want to be this middle class...

“Middle class” isn’t a thing. There’s the working class and the ruling class.

Well, okay, if that's upper class then what size ranches do middle class people buy for their kids' graduation?

Rich people are so goddamn out of touch with reality.

Lol "middle class"... Does anyone know a middle class family? I just see people with money, and people who don't have enough. That's the real world... Maybe long ago there was a middle class?

and gates has to reinvent his image with his "charity work" he still a ruthless businessman, and countries complained about his vaccine requirements as well.

In 2018, Bill Gates' net worth was approximately $90 billion. His estimated income was around $12 billion, according to estimates from Business Insider.

In 2018, the median net worth of an American household was $101,800. I chose median cause these billionaires drastically skew the mean. The median household income was $63,179.

If an average American household gave the same scale of gift in 2018, based on household income, the gift would be $83.29, and based on net worth, it'd be $17.89.

When you are a billionaire a $16m ranch is middle class.

Maybe that's why these 1%ers wealth hoard so hard, maybe they genuinely think they ARE middle class.

How do you raise a child “middle class in this house:

Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.

The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.

These rich people are so disconnected from the actual reality that the rest of us live in that it's not funny. And to make matters worse, a lot of these rich people see themselves as visionaries and leaders. Imagine that, blind visionaries. And to make matters even worse than that, a lot of people worship these 'visionaries' that can't even picture what life is like without billions of dollars, as if they have all the answers.

Its middle class, how much do they need to spend on graduation? 1mil? Yeah, we'll go 16mil and be the most middle class.

So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don't engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.

Gates may be one of the better billionaires, but it's still like comparing prostate cancer to brain cancer.

No one really seems to know what middle class is anymore. Both the family that is one missed paycheck from being homeless and the one lobbying their state for school vouchers so they can repurpose the cost of their kids' private school tuition to their college fund think they're middle class.

How much can a banana cost, Michael? $10?

Never forget that Bill's mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy's software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.

To be fair, out of all the billionaires they at least have made attempts to not make their kids shiteheads which is in stark contrast to most billionaires. At one point in time at least, they were only leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else.

Is that enough to live better than 99.99% of us? Absolutely. But it's also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.

The problem is that the working poor and the billionaires all think they are middle class. Because poor is for non-whites.

Melinda fucking Gates doesn't know what "middle class" means, big shocker there…

To be fair, by the time you graduate from college, you've already been raised.

At least he's relatively philanthropic, Mush and Bezilbub don't even try to make other peoples lives better.