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  • I don’t get it. In what way does being in the top 1% of earners not make you rich, because there’s a younger person at work who has been gifted an entire property? Lol.

    You can skip around the issue all you want, but it’s pretty hard to spin being a top 1% earner into not being rich. It’s not that deep. If there’s a scale that goes from 0-100 and you’re on 99, it takes some serious gymnastics to not see how you fit into the pecking order.

    Also I feel it’s worth pointing out that this ain’t a dig in any way, but just a nudge towards people being a bit more realistic about their relative situation.

  • He does say in the same comment that he considers himself rich though. Just there are a whole lot of richerer folk.

  • I suppose the argument is that you’re not wealthy until several (or a lot) of those months have passed and you haven’t spent it all.
    I know freelancers who’ve cleared £15k in a month, then not had paid work for another 6 months…

  • You can skip around the issue all you want, but it’s pretty hard to spin being a top 1% earner into not being rich.

    Is tres parvenu to consider oneself as rich. I believe the accepted euphemism is "comfortable" or "fairly well off".

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