[pydry]

There are people out there that make your wife's problems look paltry too.

You can safely dismiss almost every problem in the world with your approach.

[kerbs]

Sure, but software engineers are at the top. There is no career where the reverse of your example is true.

"Our jobs aren't that bad – do you hear what they do to software engineers?"

[pydry]

Software engineers are not at the top. Billionaires are.

I earn a decent chunk but I'd still have to earn my current wage for about a million years and pay 0% taxes to have as much as Jeff Bezos does.