This is something of a trap - not that you specifically are falling into it, but many people do: "I've seen rich, and I'm not that, so I'm not rich".
The problem being that there are levels upon levels of rich, and nearly everyone on the planet can think of people who are orders of magnitude more wealthy than they are - the gap between the 99th income percentile and the 99.9th is huge, and between the 99.9th and 99.99th is even larger.
(This may be exacerbated by the fact that the human brain uses "things I've seen / heard about" as a heuristic for frequency, and many super-rich celebrities are seen in the media? Not sure.)
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Date: 2013-04-03 12:15 am (UTC)This is something of a trap - not that you specifically are falling into it, but many people do: "I've seen rich, and I'm not that, so I'm not rich".
The problem being that there are levels upon levels of rich, and nearly everyone on the planet can think of people who are orders of magnitude more wealthy than they are - the gap between the 99th income percentile and the 99.9th is huge, and between the 99.9th and 99.99th is even larger.
(This may be exacerbated by the fact that the human brain uses "things I've seen / heard about" as a heuristic for frequency, and many super-rich celebrities are seen in the media? Not sure.)