Reply #52: Well Mr Moneybags, don't forget to tip your doorman

[Orrex]

I could start by mentioning that you entirely missed the point of the "doormen and nannies" comment up-thread, which you took as literal but which was in fact a rather straightforward caricature of a lifestyle that would be characterized as "rich" by the overwhelmingly vast majority of the population. The fact that you can't already see this means that you'll probably never understand it.

Second, your unattributed blurb about average wage is preposterous on two counts:
1. An average is just that: an average. If four people make $25K per year and one person makes $100K, then the average income is $40K, which is 160% of the income earned by most in this example.

2. $75,556 is less than a third of the income that you think it takes to scrape by in NYC. In posting this helpful statistic, you just decimated your primary argument, such as it was.


And, again, why are you advocating for the bottom segment of the "two percenters" rather than for the "ninety eighters?" Do you think that the wealthiest fraction of society really needs your help?