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The average person makes under 100k even in reddits favorite high cost of living tech hubs where their six figures is pretty much makes them equivalent to the people on skidrow. It's amusing how when they were struggling college students the bar for rich was millionaires. Those who've made it rich themselves the bar for rich person moved up to billionaires. So now they have to wax philosophic, "what exactly is 'rich'?". You got rich. There being richer people than you doesn't change that.
Explain the same executive compensation minus tech and people will have their pitchforks out. But it's tech so which has a different set of standards because it's the internets darling.
The term is HENRY. High Earner, Not Rich Yet. People making $100-250k are surprised to find themselves still living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to save for retirement or afford things their parents did like take a vacation, improve their homes, or having children.
They're not struggling to survive, but they aren't living a life of luxury without going into debt.
Excuse me what? Someone earning that much money is only living paycheck to paycheck because their lifestyle is that expensive. And then it actually is their own fault for buying the 15$ Latte with a 30$ Avocado toast every morning, driving to work in their leased 100k $ car, while their wive drives her own 100k $ car.
because the location where the job is, is expensive. and you can't commute in that far into the job, without raising the rents in the suburbs and gentrifying them, too. where high paying jobs are, the market realizes they can raise the cost of living.