If the number was raised to 500k people would still making the same arguments. That its not that much money if you have a large family to support, blah blah blah. Same argument would he made if the number was a million. There are billions of families across the world livin on a couple dollars per day. The full minimum wage earner in America is taking home aroud 15000 per year. And there are plenty of people working full time minimum wage jobs who have families to support. 250k is extremely wealthy and anything to the contrary is nonsense based on a warped view of how much material hopes are necessary in life.