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Where you live is irrelevant. You are by all measures rich. Your income taxes alone are nearly double the household income of 50% of Canadians. Where you choose to live and how you spend your money is inconsequential.

It's hard to find people who think they're rich.

 

Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase !

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It's hard to find people who think they're rich.

That's because the distribution of wealth is sharply exponential. People who are many times richer than the average Canadian can point to someone above them who is many more times richer than they are. Even in the 1%, of which Argus belongs, the top 0.1% makes him look like a fast food worker by comparison.

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That's because the distribution of wealth is sharply exponential. People who are many times richer than the average Canadian can point to someone above them who is many more times richer than they are. Even in the 1%, of which Argus belongs, the top 0.1% makes him look like a fast food worker by comparison.

Yes, that is my point. And it is that group which income disparity is all about. I earn somewhere between what a judge and a surgeon would earn. That's chump change to a CEO pulling in $10-25 million a year, much less the really wealthy people who are, more and more, using their money to control society, the multi-billionaires.

And in any event, what is the government giving me? Nothing but tax bills.

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

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