Sense of Proportion, the Fakebook
When I was a teenager, most people had a sense of proportion. Because that has since been lost, I'd like to propose a few rules that might just help some to act as if they had one:
1. If you have multiple domestic servants, you are not allowed to call yourself "poor." You are not poor. You are not even middle-class. You are rich.
2. Your nanny is a domestic servant. So is your gardener. So is your maid.
3. If all of your domestic servants are immigrants, you are not allowed to complain about how immigrants are stealing jobs from hard-working Americans.
4. If you "cannot save enough for retirement," yet still put more in savings than the median household income, you are not poor. Nor are you middle class. Your savings alone are than a middle-class family has to live on, and what a middle-class family puts in retirement savings is a fraction of that amount.
Unfortunately, the only penalty for violating these rules is widespread mockery. And you probably deserve more mockery than you shall receive.
1. If you have multiple domestic servants, you are not allowed to call yourself "poor." You are not poor. You are not even middle-class. You are rich.
2. Your nanny is a domestic servant. So is your gardener. So is your maid.
3. If all of your domestic servants are immigrants, you are not allowed to complain about how immigrants are stealing jobs from hard-working Americans.
4. If you "cannot save enough for retirement," yet still put more in savings than the median household income, you are not poor. Nor are you middle class. Your savings alone are than a middle-class family has to live on, and what a middle-class family puts in retirement savings is a fraction of that amount.
Unfortunately, the only penalty for violating these rules is widespread mockery. And you probably deserve more mockery than you shall receive.