What being rich means is a constantly changing goal because of the central banks. Thirty to forty years ago or longer becoming a millionaire was a big thing and would be a milestone that says you have made it. Now being a millionaire is nothing. Nobody back then could have imagined that life would become so expensive even if you owned your own house or apartment. Now to be rich you need both assets that lower your living costs but also assets that generate money for you passively. To make it worse now this is not even guaranteed to give you freedom. You must try to grow the passive income or the rising cost of living will eventually catch up and force you back to work.


According to you many poor people are actually rich.  Plenty of them don't stress about money even if they should, but they only do when a big emergency wakes them up. If we all redefine words to suit our own stories we won't get anywhere. This is not what being rich means.