Much like the soon to be german chancellor, who told an interviewer, that he is upper middle class. All that while being a former Blackrock manager and owning (and using regularily) a personal private jet. Thats some kind of chancellor material...
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Tbf, it is "merely" a private prop plane, not a jet (which would be significantly more expensive still). But yeah, not exactly middle class material…
I suppose, to her, having millions of dollars is soooo far away from her life that she has to look at it with binoculars and think that it should be middle-class.
I want to be this middle class...
Rich people always, without exception, fail to recognize their own disconnections from reality.
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Rich people are so goddamn out of touch with reality.
To be fair, out of all the billionaires they at least have made attempts to not make their kids shiteheads which is in stark contrast to most billionaires. At one point in time at least, they were only leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else.
Is that enough to live better than 99.99% of us? Absolutely. But it's also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.
leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else
The plans were to donate everything else to a tax-advantaged "charity" in which the Gates family retains complete financial control.
This is not philanthropy. It is tax avoidance, greenwashing, and a public relations campaign.
Yeah, it might be public relations, but the malaria nets and polio vaccines and HIV treatments and guinea work eradication did actually save millions of lives.
It's one thing to argue that doing good doesn't make up for doing bad, but it's another thing to refuse to acknowledge the good at all.
the countries have complained about his vaccines as being only sourced from us backed countries, so most of them couldnt afford it. he still pretty much a ruthless business man, like the above comments he is greenwashing his image.
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when gates was on reddit, he choose AMA sub, so he wouldnt get criticized, they wouldnt allow you to question him on his charities being used tax evasion or money laundering.
That’s all she’s saying. They raised the kids with limits. That’s what she should have said. They obviously weren’t raised “middle class” or anything like it.
I mean, its really open to interpretation.
If Melinda got them up in the morning, made them breakfast and drove them to school herself and picked them up (Even if its in a Bentley), make their snacks when they get home and helped them with their homework(even if you're getting the snacks out of a walk-in fridge and the housekeeper bought them) thats some regular people shit.
If you have the nanny get them up, the driver take them to school and pick them up then their tutor helps them with their homework while your chef asks them what they would like for dinner... thats not.
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this is not how generational wealth work.
lets say you are 17. having a party in the house with 100k cash in your bank account. you hear dad talk about a big merger "this company will be this company and the stock will go up" you put 50k on that and now you have 300k or something.
I sat with a few upper class once, if I have cache on hand I will be millionaire by now, it doesn't take much to get rich when you hang out with rich people....
It's more like "Hey, I have an idea for a new type of toilet. Can you get me a meeting with your golf buddy who is the CEO of the largest toilet company in the world?". This is literally how Microsoft started.
But it's also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.
How much can a banana cost, Michael? $10?
I wish that had not been foreshadowing...
What could a horse ranch cost? $10?
How do you raise a child “middle class in this house:
Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.
Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There's a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.
20 yards is still a nice number, but it is weird to not just go a bit further and hit the 25m distance of a standard competitive pool
Bill Gates is rich enough to have other people work out for him.
Olympic-sized is 50 meters, but your point stands.
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Melinda fucking Gates doesn't know what "middle class" means, big shocker there…
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“Middle class” isn’t a thing. There’s the working class and the ruling class.
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The problem is that the working poor and the billionaires all think they are middle class. Because poor is for non-whites.
Middle finger class.
They mean billionaire middleclass.
I think they actually do. $16 million is like weekend money for them, I’m guessing
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Lol "middle class"... Does anyone know a middle class family? I just see people with money, and people who don't have enough. That's the real world... Maybe long ago there was a middle class?
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To be fair, by the time you graduate from college, you've already been raised.