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Originally Posted by blankall
I think people are really looking at Peter's comment from the worst perspective. He was trying to make the point that two young professionals with no kids should be a lot better off in this society than they are. I don't think he was bragging about some ultra high salary. By "a lot" he was talking about relative to the population, which has a surprisingly large amount of people who scrape by on $20/hr jobs.
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Then he needs to work on his delivery, because missing that sort of context up front and instead embellishing personal wealth really changes the dynamic of that chest-thumping statement.
And that's not just peter, that's for anyone.