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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the conclusion here is eveyrhjngs relayyve. Some people seem quite happy on 100k, others don't.

For my part, since that's less than 50% of my current salary if I were making that 20 years down the road in my 50s I would not be thrilled.[/quote]

+1. I really don't know why OP is twisting herself into knots trying to get us to admit we're out of touch and she is umc. I am 32 and our HHI is close to 7 figures now, so yeah, OP's salary, to me, is low, especially for someone in their 50's. That's my opinion but why do you care OP? Sounds like you have a good life.[/quote]

We pull in 7 figures each month. Frankly, you sound like you haven't amounted to much in life. [/quote]
I think what the OP was originally getting at is that people around here earn so much beyond the average - the top 2% or 3%, really - that they are completely out of touch, and  think $100,000 is a low salary (someone even called that "poor") - and that it is the anger with that out-of-touch thinking that reverberated throughout the country and resulted in the uprising of the working class.

That so many DCUM readers, rather than acknowledge this, kept insisting that $100,000 is a low salary proved the OP's point. There were several examples of people living very comfortably on $100k, with international travel and maids and whatnot, yet others (the out-of-touch crowd) still said those people were not upper-middle class. (Didn't someone say a $100k salary almost qualified for welfare? SO out-of-touch!)

So many of you still do not understand the OP's point, and I can only imagine if she is annoyed at being called poor, or unsuccessful, or whatever it was, how infuriating it is for the lower-middle, who combined as a couple pull in maybe $60,000 or $70,000. They're fed up with that elitist attitude, and it definitely showed up at the polls.[/quote]

All this. It's hard to listen to people bringing home hundreds of thousands of dollars a year whining about how poor they are when you are earning $60K and hoping the lights don't get cut off. [/quote]

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