Absolutely, I totally agree. We would be up several creeks of shit if I was on minimum wage and I know that many, many people are in that position. I would not however think that I was rich.
I think saying rich would be taking it too far, rich would implied that you can easily lived without working for a decades with what you have in the bank, that would be my definition.
If you had asked the 25 year old archaeologist me ten years ago, he would have said it meant "rich". But that guy lived with his mother in law (and his wife, he wasn't a total weirdo) and had near enough zero regular outgoings.
Absolutely, I totally agree. We would be up several creeks of shit if I was on minimum wage and I know that many, many people are in that position. I would not however think that I was rich.