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Housing:

Say you have 2 homes (both are villas) (one is a normal home and the other is a vacation home (like a beach home probably)

Status/power: (tho within your own country so for my case that would be egypt)

Major general plus a tin factory business that even exports abroad from egypt if I’m not wrong

And say your distant family owns a resort too

So is that rich/upper class within egypt?

Also being able to go to 5 star resorts in egypt

(would this be rich)?

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Wrong community but i want to give this a fair assessment because of how many don't want to unity against the rich thinking they are it and would have to live with less.

This scenario is not ruling class.

Summarised its wealthy business owner that owns plural properties.

This can be considered high end middle class. And is a good example of how little most people really have. The Middle class that most people believe they belong to is basically just business owners nowadays, almost everyone who is “employee” and not owner is lower class.

The actual rich, 1% upper class which will look at this family and person as dirt.

The 1% upper class does not just stay in a 5 star hotel as if it was note worthy expense. Their accommodations are simply arranged and provided.

They'd laugh at “owns a resort” because thats just a single asset to put on their portfolio of ownerships.

They don’t consider whether or not something is egypt because they are free to fly wherever they want.

The rich will swallow this wealthy person and family whole if their greed finds them.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think you’re confusing the 1% with the 0.1 and 0.01 and 0.001% wealth tiers

Top 1% starts around a million USD but can vary slightly with cost of living. Even the 0.1% might only have a few million dollars.

Only the top 0.01 to 0.001% have unlimited wealth

OP is at minimum in the 1% but likely in the 0.1%