Meaning of ten-thousandaire | Babel Free

Definitions

A person whose net worth is at or greater than ten thousand units of the local currency.

Examples

“I have⟳ only one good quality—overwhelming belief in the brains and hearts of our nation, our state, our town. It’s so strong that sometimes I do have⟳ a tiny effect on the haughty ten-thousandaires. I shake⟳ ’em up and make⟳ ’em believe⟳ in ideals—yes, in themselves.”

“The “swollen fortune” is a fact in our economic development. There may be but one billionaire but there are any number⟳ of millionares, thousands of hundred-thousandaires and hundreds of thousands ten-thousandaires. From the point⟳ of view⟳ of the man who has nothing, an American farmer with ten thousand has a “swollen fortune,” and it is swollen far beyond the farmer’s pro rata share⟳ of the country’s wealth. The “swollen fortune” is not a thing of absolute magnitude, but entirely a matter⟳ of comparative size.”

“Seriously speaking, it is a very real question⟳ whether social discontent can be allayed by heavy taxes on large fortunes and incomes. Millionaires are a fact, and far from a wholly pleasing one; but how about the hundred-thousandaires and the hundreds of thousands of ten-thousandaires? To the migratory laborer with fifty dollars, or the wobbly with no dollars, there is just as much injustice in a skilled workman having two thousand dollars invested in a house or a savings bank as there is in a manufacturer having one million.”

“After this interjection, however, the stage⟳ is turned back over to the young woman, and she ends her story a few lines later on a utopian note⟳: “We’ve been ten-thousandaires for three years running now, so going to Shenzhen is nothing; it wouldn’t even be a big deal⟳ for us to go to America . . . Passport or no passport, we’re poor and lower middle peasants; we’ve got thousands and thousands of dollars and we can go any old place⟳ we please⟳” (89/137).”

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