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Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now.

Is this irony or just staggering cluelessness? A family net worth of $2 million puts you in the top few percent.

(From http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2009p.htm, it's somewhere above the 95th percentile of family wealth in 2009)



I think this is assuming you don't work. If you exert any effort to support yourself, you are by definition working class.


Someone just has a very different relationship with "worry". As someone who's net worth is currently a tiny fraction $2mil, I will observe that the only times I have ever worried about my finances were when my net worth was negative AND I was unemployed.




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