If you're rich, you're rich. It makes no difference if that wealth is tied up in illiquid assets. If the precarity if your financial situation is based on the fact that you're worth millions but have decided for some reason to leave it invested in one large, volatile asset, then you don't get to claim you're in the same boat as someone who is pawning their wedding ring until payday to make rent.
Being rich but poorly invested (90% of your net worth is in your home equity) is a decision you made, not a situation you found yourself born into.
Just for the record i'm NOT some "free-market will fix it" capitalist: I'm in favor of sane, Scandinavian-like system of democracy(also promoted by Bernie Sanders as democratic socialism) which exist with support of high taxes. I'm against gulags, wealth redistribution and marking people as class traitors/privileged/"eat the Rich", to which any communist country eventually devolves.
It's not a political stance, just a pro-accuracy one.
What i'm saying, and you're failing to understand is that a if citizen A has a million dollar house and 10K in savings but his income is very low, he is actually much much poorer than citizen B who has 1.01million in cash, 80K salary and rents an apartment.
>"Pro-accuracy" Its clearly obvious B has more economic impact, but with networth they seem as identical.
Citizen A can likewise sell his house, buy those same securities, and also live without working, but evidently doesn't have the same option to work for $80k/year and save even more, which is all the more reason he should diversify his portfolio.
Forgetting the potential salary (assume both lose their jobs and can't work ever again), they are exactly as rich as one another, but A has foolishly constructed his portfolio such that his house is 90%+ of his wealth. Yes, he is in a financially precarious situation due to his reliance on strong housing prices, but it's totally of his own design. He can sell at any time and cash out. If he can't actually sell (no one will buy the house for what it's "worth") then his house isn't really worth a million dollars.