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Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't need to work. Their money works for them. Everyone else is working class no matter how much you make.

You people live on a hamster wheel. Running as fast as you can, making money to outsource everything and anything. That's not living. That's straight up working to death so others can do your job. That's no dream. It's a fucking nightmare. That's why you and yours are medicated. You can't keep up. One day that wheel will wear out.

Yet you brag, you flaunt, you pretend because others around you do it so it must be copied. You're internally miserable and it shows.

Kind of like Porky Pig in Pigs is Pigs cartoon being force fed because he was greedy then he popped.

Same tune different lyrics.

Never enough. Then you die and someone else brags about your stuff because they got it all. A replacement hamster wheel starts rolling again.

I've always said I aspire to be wealthy not rich. Rich people chase the dollar. The dollar works for the wealthy people. They are worried 24/7, don't get enough rest and always compare their lifestyle to the wealthy to keep up. Just read some of the posts here. It's really sad. This why I believe profoundly in entrepreneurship. It's more important to me that my kids understand this difference than them attending some top rated expensive school just to end up working long hours for someone else. I want my kids to be leaders and not followers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't need to work. Their money works for them. Everyone else is working class no matter how much you make.

You people live on a hamster wheel. Running as fast as you can, making money to outsource everything and anything. That's not living. That's straight up working to death so others can do your job. That's no dream. It's a fucking nightmare. That's why you and yours are medicated. You can't keep up. One day that wheel will wear out.

Yet you brag, you flaunt, you pretend because others around you do it so it must be copied. You're internally miserable and it shows.

Kind of like Porky Pig in Pigs is Pigs cartoon being force fed because he was greedy then he popped.

Same tune different lyrics.

Never enough. Then you die and someone else brags about your stuff because they got it all. A replacement hamster wheel starts rolling again.

I've always said I aspire to be wealthy not rich. Rich people chase the dollar. The dollar works for the wealthy people. They are worried 24/7, don't get enough rest and always compare their lifestyle to the wealthy to keep up. Just read some of the posts here. It's really sad. This why I believe profoundly in entrepreneurship. It's more important to me that my kids understand this difference than them attending some top rated expensive school just to end up working long hours for someone else. I want my kids to be leaders and not followers.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's that simple. Lots of people in this area are not from here and are not from any competitive market like SF or NYC or even NJ or Mass. So they think by making it to DC and making 300k, they have ARRIVED. Then they look around and realize there are people making 400k, 500k, 1 million etc. They look around at the Jones and realize that at 300k, they may have to think about private school and it's no fair that their friends making 500k have to give zero thought to whether to enroll their 3 kids in private school.

And then they look back home to Wisconsin or Arkansas or wherever and realize that it's no fair that their old high school classmates -- who weren't even class valedictorian and weren't ivy bound land are grads of the local non flagship u are making 150k in sales and living in a McMansion style house with 2 brand new cars, whereas they HAVE ARRIVED in DC but "only" have a 700k brick home from the 1960s to show for it.

I haven't seen the same insecurity from people coming from say Long Island or NJ or the Bay Area bc they are used to be around A LOT of money and are also from competitive places so they never expected that they would be "the one" in their group of peers who'd be the success.

Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't need to work. Their money works for them. Everyone else is working class no matter how much you make.

You people live on a hamster wheel. Running as fast as you can, making money to outsource everything and anything. That's not living. That's straight up working to death so others can do your job. That's no dream. It's a fucking nightmare. That's why you and yours are medicated. You can't keep up. One day that wheel will wear out.

Yet you brag, you flaunt, you pretend because others around you do it so it must be copied. You're internally miserable and it shows.

Kind of like Porky Pig in Pigs is Pigs cartoon being force fed because he was greedy then he popped.

Same tune different lyrics.

Never enough. Then you die and someone else brags about your stuff because they got it all. A replacement hamster wheel starts rolling again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's that simple. Lots of people in this area are not from here and are not from any competitive market like SF or NYC or even NJ or Mass. So they think by making it to DC and making 300k, they have ARRIVED. Then they look around and realize there are people making 400k, 500k, 1 million etc. They look around at the Jones and realize that at 300k, they may have to think about private school and it's no fair that their friends making 500k have to give zero thought to whether to enroll their 3 kids in private school.

And then they look back home to Wisconsin or Arkansas or wherever and realize that it's no fair that their old high school classmates -- who weren't even class valedictorian and weren't ivy bound land are grads of the local non flagship u are making 150k in sales and living in a McMansion style house with 2 brand new cars, whereas they HAVE ARRIVED in DC but "only" have a 700k brick home from the 1960s to show for it.

I haven't seen the same insecurity from people coming from say Long Island or NJ or the Bay Area bc they are used to be around A LOT of money and are also from competitive places so they never expected that they would be "the one" in their group of peers who'd be the success.

I'm from LI and we moved to DC from NYC a few years ago. We have a HHI of $1 million, which is a lot around here but not that much in Manhattan. It is all relative. My friends in NYC live in more expensive homes but we love our $1 million single family home here. $1 million will not even get you a 1 bedroom in Manhattan. Our friends all spent at least $2 million for their 2-3 bedroom apartments.

Anonymous wrote:Happiness does not come from material things. It is an emotional state and we as humans get emotional satisfaction from relationships and feeling of self-worth. This culture does not lend to deep emotional relationships. When we cannot love or care enough to put someone else above us, then we cannot help but be self-centered. All negative feelings comes from being self-centered because there will be always someone who is better off than us in something. Its like measuring how fulfilling your life is by seeing the FB posts of others.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's that simple. Lots of people in this area are not from here and are not from any competitive market like SF or NYC or even NJ or Mass. So they think by making it to DC and making 300k, they have ARRIVED. Then they look around and realize there are people making 400k, 500k, 1 million etc. They look around at the Jones and realize that at 300k, they may have to think about private school and it's no fair that their friends making 500k have to give zero thought to whether to enroll their 3 kids in private school.

And then they look back home to Wisconsin or Arkansas or wherever and realize that it's no fair that their old high school classmates -- who weren't even class valedictorian and weren't ivy bound land are grads of the local non flagship u are making 150k in sales and living in a McMansion style house with 2 brand new cars, whereas they HAVE ARRIVED in DC but "only" have a 700k brick home from the 1960s to show for it.

I haven't seen the same insecurity from people coming from say Long Island or NJ or the Bay Area bc they are used to be around A LOT of money and are also from competitive places so they never expected that they would be "the one" in their group of peers who'd be the success.

Anonymous wrote:That $300k thread was nutso enough - then someone comes on and says they're feeling poor at a $600k household income. Which is just objectively insane, I think it's fair to say.

But it got me wondering what the underlying issue is here. Because obviously that is SO MUCH MONEY. At the same time, the people posting seem so unhappy. It's like all the houses, all the cars, all the nannies and trips and clothes have left them feeling like there has to be something more, that other people have and they don't have.

I'm not a religious person. I'm not even spiritual. I'm reluctant to say it's anything like that that these people are missing in their lives, when really they think it's more money they need.

What is it? What's actually going on here? It cannot be as simple as: there are some extremely rich people in DC and those people make everyone else feel like no amount of money is enough. Or is it? Is it actually that simple?

Anonymous wrote:It's hard saving, denying oneself and not spending discretionary income, regardless of income level. And over time what was once a discretionary expense becomes seen as a fixed expense.