LOL at being an "elitist" with a salary of only $100k...

[SaltyNuts]

Seriously? How can you be an elitist when you make so little? You ever heard of the big fish, small pond thing? If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a damned fool. I make several times that, but would never consider myself an elitist. Some people...

 

[smackababy]

Elite what? Regardless of salary, you're definitely an elite shitposter.

 

[alcoholbob]

It shows how much the middle class has declined in the last 30-40 years. $100k/year was the average inflation adjusted wage of the biggest employer in America in the 1960s--GM--a company you could get a job at with an 8th grade education. Now the biggest employer in America pays $12/hour--Walmart, and plenty of the people working there have college degrees.

 

[96Firebird]

You didn't feel the need to post this in the existing thread?

 

[Deeko]

You make several times 100k but you think the only kind of smokers are electric.

Nothing to see here folks, move along

 

[Cappuccino]

' If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a damned fool. I make several times that, ' 2017. Amen.

I cri evertyme how do i downvote op

 

[brianmanahan]

If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a d***ed fool. I make several times that, but would never consider myself an elitist. Some people...

we're talking per year, not per career

 

[JEDI]

Seriously? How can you be an elitist when you make so little? You ever heard of the big fish, small pond thing? If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a damned fool. I make several times that, but would never consider myself an elitist. Some people...

FU!
it took me a LOOOOOONG time to be near $100k/5months.

let me bask in my Elite-ism

 

[BD231]

Seriously? How can you be an elitist when you make so little? You ever heard of the big fish, small pond thing? If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a damned fool. I make several times that, but would never consider myself an elitist. Some people...

How tf do u make that much .... besides charging people out the ass for small services like a notary, or degrees.

 

[cbrunny]

Seriously? How can you be an elitist when you make so little? You ever heard of the big fish, small pond thing? If you make $100 grand and you think you are somehow "elite" you are a damned fool. I make several times that, but would never consider myself an elitist. Some people...

You should change your user name to Goldiass. I bet lots of dudes pay tons for it to be juuuuust right.

There's no way you make several times that. You're obviously lying.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I think it's worth point out that the person who used the term "elitist" here is somebody who makes 1/3 that.

If you're bringing in 2-4x the median household income by yourself, you have the means to be elitist if that's your thing. If you can stay grounded, down-to-earth, egalitarian, etc., well hey, good for you.

But, if you were grounded, you probably wouldn't be scoffing at somebody else's observing that you're doing really well.

http://www.demos.org/blog/1/21/14/why-rich-dont-think-theyre-rich-and-why-it-matters

 

[alcoholbob]

I think it's worth point out that the person who used the term "elitist" here is somebody who makes 1/3 that.

If you're bringing in 2-4x the median household income by yourself, you have the means to be elitist if that's your thing. If you can stay grounded, down-to-earth, egalitarian, etc., well hey, good for you.

But, if you were grounded, you probably wouldn't be scoffing at somebody else's observing that you're doing really well.

http://www.demos.org/blog/1/21/14/why-rich-dont-think-theyre-rich-and-why-it-matters

Which just shows the term "rich" doesn't account for local inflation or velocity of money. You can make $200k in lots of places in America and live worse than someone making $35k in the deep south. Hell that person in the deep south could have multiple houses while the guy making $200k is barely making his mortgage or rent.

The only way the guy making $200k is "richer" than the guy making $35k in a super low cost of living area is measured in how much cheap imported Chinese products the first guy can buy compared to the latter. When it comes to buying local American products, health care, or housing, the economics could be completely flipped.

 

[MongGrel]

You make several times 100k but you think the only kind of smokers are electric.

Nothing to see here folks, move along

I wonder if he has bought a gold trash can yet

 

[sdifox]

Op doesn't know how to light charcoal so take his opinion with a salt cube for horses.

 

[IEC]

Do I feel rich? Yes. I feel very blessed.
Do I act like I'm rich? No. My decade-old Toyota will be driven until I can no longer fix it myself.

 

[Crono]

Wait, OP, so you're telling me you aren't Mayne's real account?

Good to know...

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Which just shows the term "rich" doesn't account for local inflation or velocity of money. You can make $200k in lots of places in America and live worse than someone making $35k in the deep south. Hell that person in the deep south could have multiple houses while the guy making $200k is barely making his mortgage or rent.

The only way the guy making $200k is "richer" than the guy making $35k in a super low cost of living area is measured in how much cheap imported Chinese products the first guy can buy compared to the latter. When it comes to buying local American products, health care, or housing, the economics could be completely flipped.

keep on fucking that chicken.

 

[zerocool84]

Which just shows the term "rich" doesn't account for local inflation or velocity of money. You can make $200k in lots of places in America and live worse than someone making $35k in the deep south. Hell that person in the deep south could have multiple houses while the guy making $200k is barely making his mortgage or rent.

The only way the guy making $200k is "richer" than the guy making $35k in a super low cost of living area is measured in how much cheap imported Chinese products the first guy can buy compared to the latter. When it comes to buying local American products, health care, or housing, the economics could be completely flipped.

If someone is making $200k and barely able to pay their rent, they have serious issues no matter what city they are in.

 

[MrSquished]

Which just shows the term "rich" doesn't account for local inflation or velocity of money. You can make $200k in lots of places in America and live worse than someone making $35k in the deep south.
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No. By definition if you are not living in the deep south you are living better.

 

[JEDI]

Which just shows the term "rich" doesn't account for local inflation or velocity of money. You can make $200k in lots of places in America and live worse than someone making $35k in the deep south. Hell that person in the deep south could have multiple houses while the guy making $200k is barely making his mortgage or rent.

The only way the guy making $200k is "richer" than the guy making $35k in a super low cost of living area is measured in how much cheap imported Chinese products the first guy can buy compared to the latter. When it comes to buying local American products, health care, or housing, the economics could be completely flipped.

There must be a statistic to normalize income levels by taking into account cost of living so we can compare apples to apples?

Found something close- The 25 cities where your pay goes the furthest when Adjusted for home values
http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-where-your-pay-goes-the-furthest-2016-9

#1: Detroit?!?! (wtfbbq?!)
Median pay $61k

All the cities on that list have median pay between $50k and $68k, altho I don't don't if it's median individual or median household