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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…
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Yeah but earning 30k a year isn’t the same as £120k. No freelancer I know would say they earn 60k a year if they have a good month where they earn 5k. Christ I’ve been in that situation for many years where I’ve gone from big months to no pay for a while. You know exactly what you’ve earned because you do your tax return each year.
Nef
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.