On this forum, there are plenty of people who are totally out of touch with reality when it comes to salaries, doubled by the fact they they believe they are so

On this forum, there are plenty of people who are totally out of touch with reality when it comes to salaries, doubled by the fact they they believe they are so above everyone else that they should earn 10 times average Joe's salary and live like kings, hence everything else is a failure. Very recently, there were the 'unworthy' Japanese salaries. They were 50%-80% higher that what I am used to see around me for equivalent qualifications, but no, the general opinion here was that they were outrageously low (without consideration for any other factor). I also remember one guy saying he was earning 150k$/year and that leaving in France was with that salary OK but barely so. Truth is that's 3 to 4 times what most mid-career engineer earn, and their salary allows them to have an easy life. That's 6 times the median salary, which means that half of the population can live 6 years or more with a single year of his salary. That's 8 times the minimum wage, and lots of people live with it, some without any problem, some with difficulties, depending on the family situation, the location and the spending habits, but they all make do. Finally that's 20 times the amount of welfare, which is enough to live a poor and simple life. So the guy could have lived, say 10 years with a single year of his income, and yet he was whining. My jaw regularly falls when I read money/salary related posts on this forum.