I'm not exposed to very many Joneses. Not on any social media, so I'm not seeing whatever perfect curated influencer lives are dominating Instagram. I didn't ju

I'm not exposed to very many Joneses. Not on any social media, so I'm not seeing whatever perfect curated influencer lives are dominating Instagram. I didn't jump neighborhoods a bunch as tech salaries skyrocketed, so my neighbors are mostly poorer than me. The few long time friends I still have from the good old class of '99 run a gamut of averageness you'd expect from any random sample of who you happened to meet and like at a public high school in the 90s, so not much to keep up with. Co-workers are working a similar job at a similar salary. I work for the DoD, so the senior executives directly managing us are making less money than the contractor engineers. There are plenty of people out there worth being jealous of, probably, but if I don't know about them, I can't be jealous.