It's difficult for me to personally empathize with people who make six figures when I've been spending $15k or less a year for over 2 decades. Don't ask me how I do it; I don't even know. Scrappy as hell.

And of course you can make that argument all you want: that $100k is middle class, but does that mean you're implying that the middle class isn't supposed to save any money? Because ultimately the point is to showcase that the culture pushes everyone to live beyond their means no matter what their situation is. Just shift 6-figures to 7-figures and nothing changes. Everyone acts the same.

Also it needs to be pointed out that nobody has hundreds of billions of dollars. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos do not have DOLLARS. They have companies and they own billions of dollars worth of STOCK, which is not the same as dollars whatsoever. Is it really wealth hording to build a business and want to hold a controlling share of your own business? How is that hoarding? That stock was printed out of thin air. The total market cap is a largely meaningless number. Even if they paid their employees more that doesn't guarantee their stock price would go down. Are they supposed to dump stock to pay employees more? None of the stakeholders would allow that. So what are they supposed to do?

What would we say if someone on Hive was a billionaire? Would we say that guy is a greedy asshole and they should dump their bag on the market making everyone on the network instantly poor? Kinda the same logic as above.