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The problem is that you are equating "bills to pay" as living paycheck to paycheck at the minimum level. It is a metaphor that they are still working class. Y
by mlrtime 3y ago
The problem is that you are equating "bills to pay" as living paycheck to paycheck at the minimum level.
It is a metaphor that they are still working class. You can earn 500k-1M/year in salary and be working class. Your monthly expenses may be > than your salary and you need it to keep working to get at the same QOL.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThis is absurd and totally out of touch with reality I live in an exurb of DC, in one of the highest cost of living areas with one of the highest median income in the world. I have 3 kids who are all in middle and early high school (the most expensive time) and a mortgage and literally just did the math on what my MINIMUM income would need to be in order to maintain a extremely comfortable lifestyle and it’s between $80-100k a year. Anyone making more than ~100k a year isn’t living paycheck to paycheck unless they are spending way more than their means - which is actually most people