Never forget that Bill's mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy's software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.
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I only got a £2 million pony farm for my 18th, and I was raised working class so this makes sense...
$16 Million Horse Farm and middle class income. Can he drop the farm to some random person from middle class so we can compare the outcomes ?
Its middle class, how much do they need to spend on graduation? 1mil? Yeah, we'll go 16mil and be the most middle class.
But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!
So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don't engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.
He's such a philantropist
Everyone in the US is middle class. You can be upper middle class or lower middle class, but you can never not be middle class.
She means she told them to hold their wallet around the blacks in the city, and that only feminine gays are acceptable.
only feminine gays are acceptable.
I'm out of the loop for this. Is this something middle class families believe?
probably confusing it with UPPER middle class people, which are nowhere near middle class.
Even then, is there anyone, apart from TV execs who only cast stereotypes, who think masculine gays aren't acceptable?
Akshually. Depending on which definition you use they are middle class. The original meaning of middle class is the wealthy who don’t hold a title. They sit below the aristocracy aka upperclass, and above the peasantry aka the working class. The middle class is also called the bourgeoisie.
i like the original meaning because it made it a lot easier to point at the bourgeois and their politics (which is currently ruining my country and the proletariat is more than willing to lean even harder into their destructive mandates).
in my country/culture, middle class is (or at least was) anyone who have earned a professional title of high esteem. i.e. a doctor. and socially they were highly respected, regardless of actual wealth status. wealthy people used to be targets of ridicule (because they tried to flaunt their wealth in public. i still remember, 20 years ago, how one of our wealthiest individuals were literally crying on TV how no one respected her for wealth and she much preferred american culture. incidentally and totally unrelated; she launched a bunch of reality tv shows about worshipping wealth after that).
unfortunately american social media and said reality TV shows have radically changed how youth and the younger generation identify "status". i always hear about how they will be rich one day and buy a super mansion. but if you ask what the purpose of that is; they couldn't explain it - it's just what they're told to desire.
so from my perspective, the next 2-3 generations are on a path to ruin in the name of capital ownership for the few.
They ate cereal for dinner one night per week. Super middle class. /s
Jennifer Gates, born on April 26, 1996, would have been 22 years old in 2018. All the raising has been done at that point.
Ok.
Clearly not relatable at all but why do we talk about that all of a sudden? Is it a diversion over something else?
The corporation knows we hate billionaires. They rang the dinner bell and gave us our slop. Now we need to lap it up and generate ad revenue for the business. We need to tell the world: ragebait articles contribute to society, they generate value, it brings in the visitors.
~~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.~~
She is a commoner. How else could she raise her kids?