I can answer the question without knowing the definition of rich we are using here. I don’t think about a person’s income or wealth much at all. There are good people and bad people in every group no matter how you group people. Even a particular individual might be very complex. Look at Bill Gates. He is doing a lot of good in the world, but he also could make his products more affordable by lowering the price. Maybe he would have millions instead of billions if his profit margins had been a little lower.
I hate blanket statements that all rich people have hurt someone getting their riches, that really bothers me. Also, a lot of rich people just did their jobs and their jobs paid a lot. Who would turn down the money if it’s there? Not many people.
I really don’t have much to say about rich people I don’t know personally. What am I going by? How the media portrays them?
I know quite a few people who are what would be considered rich by a lot of people, most of them I don’t consider to be rich. Most of them their “status” is precarious really. Look at me, my husband lost his job and when his severance runs out, which will happen very soon, our household income will be $300 a week from me and I assume he will qualify for unemployment, so whatever low amount that is. Hopefully, he gets a job before we need to go to asking for unemployment. At any time the rug can be pulled out from almost anyone.
To me rich is not having to worry much at all about income, because you have enough wealth to live just on what is in the kitty. The money throws off so much money that you’re all set.
I guess I’m pretty bothered by people who make loads of money in health care by denying treatment to people. But, probably in one of my IRA accounts I own stock in some insurance company that has done just that. I hope not. I specifically didn’t pick any health related accounts because the business turns me off so much.
The few people I know who I think of as wealthy are seemingly very nice. The very rich do tend to stick to their own group in the end. It’s not that they put other people on the outside, I think it is just a function of what they can afford and their world is different than the rest of us.