“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.
“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.
No, they genuinely think they are struggling. Rich people don’t think they are rich, because there is someone who makes more, and they are rich. The 10% thinks they are struggling because they aren’t the 1%. The 1% thinks they are struggling because they aren’t the .1% and so on and so on.
I met a doctor once who thought that she was being ‘struggling’ by only making 450K/yr and she thought she deserved 550k/yr. She was 100% genuine.
I make 3x median income. and all i ever hear is how ‘poor’ i am from my friends/peers. Because do then ‘poor’ is anything less than 250K/year w/ multiple family properties to vacation and stuff.