[cashewchoo]

No, I think this is the same way in much of the US. Millionaires are just skilled labor around age 35-40 (depending on a lot ofc). And you're going to need about 4x that to retire, depending on the kind of lifestyle you want.

It's expensive as hell to do the whole "2.5 kids, a house, and 2.5 college tuitions" thing while still having a life of your own.

I also realize this comes from a place of privilege (many people can't even really expect to ever retire, much less retire comfortably or lavishly).

The middle class has really eroded away to basically not having any lower or middle segment. You're either working poor (whether you self-identify that way or not) or you're upper-middle-class (where you might start to externally seem "rich" but if you lose your job you still have to find another one pretty fast.)

[metalliqaz]

I'm 40 years old with a masters in computer engineering, working in aerospace since grad school. Not even close to a millionaire WTF you talking about?