Twice the median wage is nothing nowadays tbh. Inequality in my country isn’t even that bad compared to the US, but for an example, to be a sole provider for a family, you need to be making about twice the median, unless you don’t have rent or a mortgage to pay. This used to be possible with just median in the US I believe, but I somehow doubt it is now.
Fair enough. It’s just that while I do hate sleazy salesmen myself, they get a lot of hate when really they’re no different from the rest of us trying to make a buck in this rat race to keep food on the table the next day. It’s just that they’re in a position where their behavior directly affects their income and most the rest of us are not.
It isn’t a LOT of money but it is drastically more. Where I live you can survive making around 35-40k. The way I see it is that is your baseline requirement. So someone who makes 60k has about 20-25k spending money to improve their situation. Someone making 150k has 110-115k to improve their situation. So I would argue they are in practice more than 5 times richer. $55/day spending vs $301/day.
Twice the median wage is nothing nowadays tbh. Inequality in my country isn’t even that bad compared to the US, but for an example, to be a sole provider for a family, you need to be making about twice the median, unless you don’t have rent or a mortgage to pay. This used to be possible with just median in the US I believe, but I somehow doubt it is now.
Fair enough. It’s just that while I do hate sleazy salesmen myself, they get a lot of hate when really they’re no different from the rest of us trying to make a buck in this rat race to keep food on the table the next day. It’s just that they’re in a position where their behavior directly affects their income and most the rest of us are not.
It isn’t a LOT of money but it is drastically more. Where I live you can survive making around 35-40k. The way I see it is that is your baseline requirement. So someone who makes 60k has about 20-25k spending money to improve their situation. Someone making 150k has 110-115k to improve their situation. So I would argue they are in practice more than 5 times richer. $55/day spending vs $301/day.
You can raise a family one fairly easily.
Anyways… that’s off topic haha