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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/savings/article-12405287/Just-DOES-feel-rich-America-today-quarter-workers-earning-175-000-consider-poor-poor-despite-10-tax-filers.html

. . .

Ok, weird.

Ya know those people who are absolutely convinced
they're "too fat" even though they look like a
concentration-camp inmate ? That's "body dysphoria".

Well, now we're seeing "paycheck dysphoria".

Sorry, but if you're earning in the top 10%
you are NOT "poor", especially not "very poor".

Means you can't buy a beach-house in Hawaii or
a survival mansion in NZ - but you are NOT "poor".

Now, oddly, this delusion DOES have some interesting
political implications. The lefties always want to
tax "The Rich" to death in order to buy votes. BUT,
if most of "The Rich" actually BELIEVE they're "poor"
then such plans seem to unfairly target THEM and
they'll react like any (actual) "poor" person, see
it all as horribly unfair, evil, persecution,
robbery. What is "rich" is more "perceptual",
more "relative", than you'd imagine. Over-tax
a Gen-X/Y/Z and you've made a bad political enemy.
So much for your donations/support ......

Just sayin' ... it's not all numbers, it's
psychology too - and that makes things MESSY.
That's politics.

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