• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    From personal experience there are indeed quite a few people, especially in New York, who pull in $400k or even $1 million and feel like they're poor. Their houses are huge, but they're not even close to the size of the residences of those making $10 million+. They get to go to the Met Gala, but their richer friends get to actually interact with the celebs. Stuff like that. NYC in particular is like a fractal experience of wealth—no matter how wealthy you are, you're always going to feel poor unless you're pulling in billions, and even then I'm sure you feel poor compared to Bezos. This is partially why the abolition of classes benefits everybody. Even the mega-wealthy are caught in the rat race of never-ceasing capital accumulation! Of course, they all get Central Parked when the time comes, but at least their distance ancestors won't have to feel trapped the way they did.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      NYC is ridiculous. I make 100k exactly here (sorry comrades, I'm good with code, I work at a start up, flame me if you have to) and I wouldnt call myself lower class, but its not like I get to own everything. Everything here is just unreal expensive, it sucks.

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Engels' family owned a factory, don't beat yourself up about it. Agreed that NYC is some weird hellhole where everything is expensive, but it's also weird to me that I have friends who are like "it's so expensive to live here" on $100k+ families when neighbors down the street with three kids get by ok on $65k. I feel two ways about it, in that the expensive trope is simultaneously very real and something only specific to 20 and 30 somethings "trying to make it" in the city.

        • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I totally get what you mean by that, and I think a part of that is if you're moving into the city you're more likely to land in an expensive neighborhood, and it makes all the difference. But it also could just be people in their 20s don't know how to live yet, idk