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> billionaire is sometimes used as a stand-in for "the superrich"

wait. doesn't that basically work? if you're a billionaire, you are super rich. if you're super rich and you're not a billionaire, are you really super rich?

i don't quite get your point there.

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For instance, you could own or have inherited (or even work for) a business that generates you $1 million in income every year - this puts you in the 99% income percentile. You certainly don't have a massive fortune saved up, just a modest $300 million. By all means you are "super rich" compared to the average human but you're not a billionaire.

Debating definitions is bad, can we not?

TL;DR figurative language sometimes doesn't follow definitions exactly

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