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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I own a house and make a couple of hundred grand a year, I don't feel rich but I agonize over whether I want to drop four grand on an amplifier to replace the two grand one I've got that works fine and sounds great while my mate with a kid in a wheelchair who has to work a graveyard cleaning shift and can't pay his phone bill.
That's when I realize what a lucky spoilt ####### I am and how skewed our view of wealth has become.
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This is it exactly, imo. Those defending 150k+ earners as not wealthy or particularly rich are losing the forest for the trees.
If you make $200k and decide to maximize what you own with that money and then claim "it doesn't make me wealthy or rich, look I still have a mortgage and all these things I pay for, so I'm closer to the average family than a wealthy person", you've lost perspective.
That makes as much sense as a $500k/yr earner mortgaging a multi million dollar house, buying all the amazing toys and living luxuries he could possibly afford and then saying "Well, don't tell me I'm wealthy, I still gotta watch my spending, it's no free for all like lower earners seem to think".
Statistics pretty clearly lay out where different levels of earners sit in society and if statistics show you earn in the top 3 to 5 percent of an entire society, maybe it's time to step back and really look at your life and how it compares to the vast majority of people on this earth.