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That definition puts high performing doctors, lawyers, and surgeons making $250k+ solidly in the middle class, no? Even two married doctors, together making $50
by sliverstorm 12y ago
That definition puts high performing doctors, lawyers, and surgeons making $250k+ solidly in the middle class, no? Even two married doctors, together making $500k+. Can that really be middle class?
- cpitman 12y agoYes, especially when you take into account that your two married doctors will likely be working off debt/opportunity cost related to becoming doctors for over a decade. At the point that they have paid off all debt, and start having a positive net-worth, things might turn around. At the point that they have saved enough that they can live off investing their savings then that is upper class.
- sliverstorm 12y agoFuture doctors yes, but the 40-year-old doctors of today don't (to my understanding) have crushing, colossal loans.