So, I am sad and disappointed and frustrated. 99% are being treated poorly.

[Sheepshank]

But of course we already knew that. It's just that today it's pissing me off more than usual.

To the rich, the middle class is a stinky annoyance they must deal with because, you know, minions and serfs are necessary. The poor and their advocates are actually the enemy.

That is all

[frazzled]

1. People who are earning $375,000 a year are being treated poorly?

Because they are among the 99%.

An entry ticket to the 1% starts with an annual income of about $394,000 (says Berkeley’s Emmanuel Saez) or about $1.5 million in liquid assets (my zestimate). Post-tax and retirement savings, that’s about $220,000 a year while they are working. These are national norms. If they happen to live on the coasts or near a major urban center, as is more than likely, they might need twice as much money to crash into the 1% by local standards.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/phildemuth/2013/11/25/are-you-rich-enough-the-terrible-tragedy-of-income-inequality-among-the-1/

Maybe you should be saying, like, the 75%.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. ^^this^^

[DoBotherMe]

4. Yes, they are still subject to the whims of the .001 of the 1%

http://www.forbes.com/sites/phildemuth/2013/11/25/are-you-rich-enough-the-terrible-tragedy-of-income-inequality-among-the-1/

"Not until you get to the top 1/10th of the 1 percent, with an income of $1.9 million a year, do you achieve orbital velocity and start to escape earth’s monetary gravitational field. You’re not rich in the Hollywood sense until you attain the top 1/100th of the 1%, with an annual income of at least $10.2 million. The 99% only know such people through seeing them on television or reading about them in the newspapers. People in the lower dungeons of the 1% do know these people, though, because unfortunately they have to work for them."

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. what 99%

There is no 99%. As if someone at the top of that pile is in any way suffering like the bottom 3rd is.

[Sheepshank]

5. hey thanks...clearly nothing I just said matters then.