She did not behave or speak in the way of the women he normally met, for she had always inhabited an indefinite space, neither rich norpoor, neither servant nor begum, in a city where the very concept of a middle class still found expression in only a few households, among managers of banks and of big industrial concerns sugar and textiles and steel.
Based on Forbes' estimates, Kamprad is very rich, but not as rich as the Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer estimates (nor as poor as Ikea suggests).