A million dollars isn't very much any more. I don't count someone as wealthy before about 10 million, or rich before about 50.

And I say this as someone whose current net worth is -ve.https://t.co/8O6MJiXL8z

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) April 10, 2019

In the US especially. You can be “wealthy” here until you get cancer, then it can be $2 million gone just like that. I’d only count someone wealthy in this country if two family members can survive having cancer for 3-4 years, and not be flat broke at the end of it all. Otherwise, you are just conditionally wealthy until some medical tragedy occurs.