by The Leftist Review
The French aristocracy was not executed during the blood terror simply for the crime of being rich; they were executed for ignoring the plight of the poor. In their defense, yes their defense, let me offer up the observations of a poor man. When you have nothing or very little, you share that environment with all those around you who also have little or nothing. Since that number in this American society is huge and growing, that lifestyle and those opinions, appear to be the opinions to us, of the population as a whole.
Now, take your average golden lunchbox millionaire earning around $ 400,000 annually. He or she gets that paycheck every week and glances at their gross weekly earnings of $ 7,692.30; they look quickly at their deductions and are outraged. But what they don't ever have to think about is "Oh, my god, how am I going to pay my bills!" With a monthly income of $33,000, what's a $5,000 a month house payment or a $ 900 per month car payment, or even two of each?
Very quickly, in a matter of a few years, they've run out of things to spend money on. You own all the houses and cars you can handle, you've got a Rolex or three and you've gone everywhere and done everything; well" almost everything. But that damn money keeps piling up by the door, another $33,000 every 30 days, so there's nothing left to do but to invest.
Let's suppose for the sake of argument that our golden lunchbox millionaire likes the wild life and spends heavily. Even after deducting any potential tax liability, our millionaire still has around $320,000 to try and live on. So let's suppose they spend $10,000 per month on a David Crosby size cocaine addiction, or a Bill Bennett sized gambling compulsion. Even after squandering 12 grand a year or even 50, they're left with only $ 270,000 to live on, with the point being, their lives have nothing to do with ours.
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