rich only has meaning in relation to the other people around you. we are all kinda rich nowadays and hereabouts, considering the amount of energy we have at our disposal, the good booze and food we can generally easily buy, indoor plumbing and mechanical marvels of all types, relative to the relative poverty of even the wealthiest in prior generations. On the other hand, a lot of us are also kinda poor, in a lotta ways, in terms of anxiety and purpose and family bonds and even just plain old positive net worth. so I would say, if you have to ask what rich means, it’s not you. but i’d also say that people who go around saying i’ve got a “rich’ attitude so I’m rich? umm, they’re not rich either. Since I tend to go with the “rich is defiend by relation to others and is only the top of the heap”, and it’s local not global, it can only by definition be a small slice of the population who can commands extraordinary amounts of energy and resources with however they happen to be holding their wealth. So we’re all rich and all dirt poor, depending on how you wanna spin it.
