The problem with "only scraping by" is that a lot of people have very high baselines for "scraping by". "I'm barely scraping by", says the person with an above

The problem with "only scraping by" is that a lot of people have very high baselines for "scraping by". "I'm barely scraping by", says the person with an above average income, living in an expensive city, frequently going out, going on multiple vacations per year, buying luxury items, etc. People who are actually scraping by do not talk about needing to buy a bigger house if they have more kids, because they literally cannot afford that. https://twitter.com/kitten_beloved/status/1667615948877234176 https://twitter.com/kitten_beloved/status/166761594887723417...