When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

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    8 hours ago

    At what point is someone wealthy using gapminder levels of income where level 1 is earning $2 a day, level 2 is $8, level 3 $32, etcetera?

    And at what point is a person in power?

    Is Zelensky in power? Xi Jinping?
    Greta Thunberg? John Oliver? JT Chapman? Karl Marx? The admin of this site?

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      2 hours ago

      i mean, we can easily define it as some multiple of the poverty level.

      and in fact in the USA economy it’s pretty easy, if you are in the top 10% currently your wealth will grow and the economy is great for you. if you are in the bottom 90% your economic fortunes are stagnating or declining. the top 10% of income earners is 150K+. once you start making over 100K you are more or less doing very well.

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      8 hours ago

      The OP made a distinction between wealth and power. Your question salad conflating the two, even if wealth does grant power, and muddying the original question with “What is the definition of ‘is’?” isn’t meaningful.