[DC1350]

$150k is not even enough to buy a small home near your workplace in a lot of cities. Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today

[Moodles]

You sound more out of touch than an alien from outer space. No way is 150k worse quality of life than a janitor 50 years ago.

[Der_Einzige]

Many janitors are unionized and paid quite well. I think you're the out of touch one here.

[Moodles]

Data or gtfo

[dudeman13]

>Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today

Utter bullshit.

>$150k is not even enough to buy a small home near your workplace in a lot of cities

Live within your means for 5 years, invest the 70k/y excess money into index funds.

You can live of dividends anywhere in the world that isn't a capital in a first world country. Without even losing money.

Literally the 1% pretending to be poor and living in worse conditions that janitors 50 years ago. Yeah, right.

[whimsicalism]

It's utterly amazing to me how far up the wealth pyramid you can go and find people saying "Me? No, no, no, I'm not wealthy - it's the people above me who are the wealthy ones."

Perhaps it stops at like $500k/yr?

[DC1350]

> Perhaps it stops at like $500k/yr?

It stops once somebody’s net worth is already so high that their annual income is irrelevant. Those are the real wealthy people.

[TheTrotters]

> Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today

This is just batshit crazy.

[paconbork]

There's plenty of cities that aren't NYC/SF/LA