Article Simply Defines Social Class by Net Worth

Bad poll OP - you forgot to include "Trillionaire (12" cock)" for the average DLer to select.

Wow, DL gays are doing well.

It's difficult to use a net worth measure across age groups. Having $200,000 at 25 is an indication you are exceptionally well off. If you are 65, it is not.

DL gays are in their 80s so they have decades of savings, not to mention various inheritances from spinster aunts and the like.

There’s also mother’s fine china, which is PRICELESS, and skews the evaluation.

The numbers are valid. Even though it seems like there are millions of people with obscene wealth, having more than $2 million is in reality rare and is truly wealthy - top 5% or so. No one has perspective anymore because we are inundated with images and stories of people having obscene wealth.

So according to this scale a lot of people with postgraduate degrees would count as lower middle class.

R5 Gurl that shit ain't even dishwasher safe!

...and I get grief over the price of a $20 A YEAR subscription!

So bottoms are all poor?

I'm shocked to find out I qualify as "wealthy." I certainly don't feel (or live) that way.

I'm confused. Is this survey for annual income or net worth?

I'm glad you posted this because I was baffled when an old friend who grew up during the 1960s and 1970s in what I considered to be a very swanky house on a small lake and whose parents owned their own business and played golf recently claimed to have been "lower lower middle class."

To me, there’s a HUGE chasm between lower middle and upper middle classes.

To go from one to the other is a pretty big leap.

So, there’s probably still a middle-middle class in between.

R12, wealth is the word used, and wealth means assets that can be used transactionally. So net worth.

It’s weird that wealthy and upper class are two tiers when (at least in America) they’re synonymous.

I’m wealthy per OP, but I also live in one of the most expensive areas in the USA, so I don’t feel so wealthy.

R6 is correct and lives on earth.

Social media has created a distorted, warped and sick representation of what success is.

Where is the article OP?! This scale is preposterous. Social class is not determined by net worth. What is "upper class" and how is it lower status than "wealthy"?

The differences, regionally, between standards of living really make me question the results of this article. My 'wealth' wouldn't go very far in NYC, LA, OR SF, although I'm 'comfortable' in Ohio.

[quote] It's difficult to use a net worth measure across age groups. Having $200,000 at 25 is an indication you are exceptionally well off. If you are 65, it is not.

The same is true of $2.1 million. Middle-class gays can save $2.1 million by 65 -- if they didn't blow all their money on circuit parties, meth, coke and rent boys.

r17=Margaret Drysdale

My retirement accounts are currently sitting at exactly $688,282.93. I'm 46. I don't feel upper middle class because the only thing I have done right in my financial life is consistently put money away for retirement. At this point, I am not sure I will ever buy real estate, I was never really ready in the past (for one reason or another) and now I feel like that ship has sailed. In order to buy something I would have to dip into my after tax retirement savings and I don't know if that is an entirely smart move. My financial advisor says it would be a wash at this point, as my retirement accounts are now at the point where they are really starting to grow quickly. And yet, I wonder ... don't you sort of have to own property in order to reach true wealth?

R21, what’s your job?

I work in tech, R21. I manage a team of sales engineers at Salesforce.

What in the low rent hell? Upper middle class is wide and starting at 74K? Bitch I live in a major city in SoCal? Op where this come about from? This is a hot mess.

Oops I read too fast. I ain’t lower middle class either tho. I make over 100K.

R7, that was always my understanding, as well.

When I was in undergrad/grad school, no matter the income, virtually all my professors, and dozens I didn't know personally, but "knew" from around, traveled in relatively elite social circles.