Mr. Bayaz, which class do you feel you belong to? Statistically speaking, I probably belong to the upper class. My wife …

Katharina Schulze, leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament… and I both earn six figures a year. Therefore, as a household, we are at least in the top five percent in terms of income.

The Bayaz/Schulze couple is even one of the absolute top earners, the top one percent of annual income in Germany. Oh, look. But you asked how it feels. To that I can only answer: not according to the upper class.

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