Trouble is defining “The Rich.” Like, definitely billionaires, but there’s only a thousand of them, and you can do a lot of damage with half that. 1% are people with something around $10-15M, and that doesn’t really feel like buy-your-way-out-of-murder money. But even millionaires are probably pretty well insulated from concerns of rent and the price of eggs.

If it were up to me, “Rich” would be somewhere in the 8-figures region, but I’m one of those privileged, ‘comfortable,’ oldere people.

Given how many users threads claims, I suspect threads members must be de facto limited to threads communities. Even if they can, technically, subscribe to regular lemmy communities, how would they discover them? “320 million” threads users vs 65,000? 100,000? lemmy users? And community search is going to be flooded with options from the platform with 2000x more users.