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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have anything to add to the main debate here, but I find it quite condescending that people keep saying that those of us who make that kind of income "don't live in the real world."

My parents came as immigrants to this country and had no soft capital to give to me except the cultural values of a love for education and hard work, and my siblings and I clawed our way into making $200k + by sheer force of will and talent while constantly being outsiders.

And people on this board say [i]we[/i] don't live in the real world? Forgive me if I don't have endless sympathy for those whose families have been here for generations (with all the privileges that entails) if they still can't hack it and are slumming it in constant mediocrity. [/quote]
What's your definition of "slumming it"? You don't find it condescending to say people earning $100,000 are mediocre? What a friggin' snob.[/quote]

Not making a blanket statement about those who make $100K- if you choose to go into government service or public service that's tremendously honorable. But if you've been here for generations and are in the private sector, yeah color me extremely unimpressed.[/quote]

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