When lefty idealists talk about the "rich" and the "poor", where are the cut-off points in terms of annual net income?

Question

For example,
Poor > £10,000
Neutral £10,000 - £50,000
Rich < £50,000

Answer 1

If someone has more than they do, they are rich. We hear the greedy Union bosses and 'executives' complain about the poor while pocketing more than most lefties would consider the pay of the rich. The lefties are just envious and often workshy. They boast about working few hours to raise their kids but expect top up benefits, free nurseries and housing benefits. They are an entitled breed who grow up breathing in the air of envy, it isn't fair that company directors have better houses, nicer cars and better holidays but then the same lefties boast about wanting to work few hours to be at home with the family. Just expect the higher tax payers to fund their choices.

There is no logic to lefties. Just know they will always want more for doing less and resent anyone who is doing better than they are,

Look at the Union officials ( self proclaimed ) who post on this site, all hating on the government but all living off generous pensions that far exceed those of the workers they were employed to represent, no doubt these Union bods claim they are hard done by, but if you believe them I have a bridge you might want to buy.

Answer 2

I know plenty of socialists - I'm one myself - but I'm not sure what Hate Mail journos and other intellectually challenged Tory filth mean by 'lefty idealists.'



The idea of fixed cut-off points is rather naive and simplistic - a decent income in some places, and given a house without a mortgage, would be drastically different from what it might be for poor sods trapped in London and robbed by landlords, for instance.



However - anyone forced to choose unhealthy food on price grounds, worried about turning the heating on in winter, having to put off NHS dental treatment on cost grounds, terrified by the prospect of an upcoming MoT and unable to send their kids on educational activities not paid for by the school, is not only poor but a walking indictment against this time and place and its owners.



Anyone whose kids are/were at Eton or any of the other 'public' schools, on the other hand, for instance, is by definition a Rich Git.

Answer 3

As with everything it is a sliding scale, the really poor down and outs (homeless) the poor struggling to feed themselves and heat their homes, the poor with not much spare cash for social activities, the not too well off, the comfortable, the fairly well off and the rich who earn six figure salaries and can easily a fford a jet set lifestyle going on holiday for months at a time (although some will say they work very hard, while on a three month holiday). A lot depends on your outgoings, I know people in London really struggling to make ends meet on salaries that would have you as "nicely comfortable" in Lancashire. Depends on your dependents, try raising 2 kids on £9 an hour with a mortgage, you will need help.



As for me, I do not focus on what others have, but on what others lack, and when homeless numbers, food bank usage and child poverty is soaring I know we have a problem.

Answer 4

Different people probably have different standards in mind, but someone who earns £50,000 a year hardly qualifies as rich. Maybe disposable wealth of over a million would count as rich. But just look at the Sunday Times Rich List to see who the truly super-rich are.

Answer 5

What do the Labour Leaders trouser annually ?

Union Leaders salaries ?

MPs ?

Same Class,as the Tory Leaders,rarely discuised.

Answer 6

Poor = anyone who needs financial assistance for basic necessities. Rich = people in the top 10% of income.

Answer 7

The 'left' usually have preconceived ideas about "the rich".......The 'rich' are generally anybody who has more than they do, and 'obviously' is not entitled to it regardless how hard they 'grafted' for it !

Answer 8

Lefties usually think anyone with more than them are rich.......and poor anyone with less than them



They are blinkered fools!

Answer 9

I do not believe £50K makes you rich...