Are you rich ?

what is to be rich in France? From when and under what criteria is it considered as such? On this subject, everyone has his own opinion as the concept is subjective. And this, even at the peak of the State. While Emmanuel Macron hopes that the youth “had wanted to become a billionaire”, his predecessor at the Elysée palace, François Hollande, has never hidden his aversion to the French as the most “affluent”. That is, those who, according to him, earn more than 4000 euros net per month. But can we really say that a person with such income is rich? To the inverse of the threshold of poverty, which may in particular be calculated according to a consumption basket, no absolute value exists to secure the border of the wealth. However, a method developed over a score of years by the Observatory of inequalities, is regularly used. That is to say that a person is “rich” when she won the double of the median income “available.” Is the …