An Audiophile is Anyone Who Loves Audio Regardless of Monetary Status. Agree?

"All the hallmarks of an audiophile, can occur at many different financial levels."

And none of those levels are available to many lower middle class earners and virtually no lower class earners.

It is almost painful watching some of you guys mentally trying to make hi-fi a hobby for the masses. There seem to be two tacks: 1) Being an audiophile is just a state of mind or 2) Being an audiophile is affordable and available to everyone.

Neither of these are remotely true.

No matter how much we wish they were.

‘Music Lover’ is not a synonym of ‘Audiophile’.

And in its very founding, America is all about ‘less privilege’ and minimizing the prevalence privileged classes (i.e. Kings, Queens, Lords).America has forgotten to be critical of the wealthy,

It seems that America also forgot that you can be a music lover or audiophile elsewhere.

"...the children of the very wealthy. They end up as not very healthy or productive citizens right? If you can do anything, afford anything, you do not learn to make good decisions. Period."

What gung-ho motivational speaker’s book was this copied from?

"...the children of the very wealthy. They end up as not very healthy or productive citizens right? If you can do anything, afford anything, you do not learn to make good decisions. Period."

Clearly they're all lazy good for nothing......
for example....

https://bestlifeonline.com/celebrities-who-were-born-wealthy/

When I tap my foot, when my wordly troubles disappear, when I am awed at the beauty of music—those are the moments I am after. Some of those moments come each week from life music made with friends, some of those come from listening to my system. 

That said, I waste/invest lots of time reading up on and listening to gear. That’s the part of the hobby which isn’t about the music per se.

If I could eliminate my tinnitus, I would gladly downgrade my system!