I take Carrol's point that the absolute financial security that comes with great wealth is starkly different from all who lack such wealth, whether they make $20K or $150K a year.
We could also grant that households receiving around $100K annual income face risks of bankruptcy (i.e., a catastrophic illness in the family, loss of a uniquely remunerative job, death of a breadwinner), whereas those in the $20K range face risks of destitution. So they differ from each other too.
mbs
<< No. It shows, perhaps, how weird your and Carrol's perceptions are. 100k a
year in this country makes you fucking loaded, period, and just about every
one I know thinks so -except for the ones who make 100k or more, of course.
>>
No. It depends on where you live. My wife and I make about $100K between us, but in Chicago, while we are comfortably middle class, we are not "fucking loaded." Of coyrse, since I make $100K, I am disqualified from commenting, but I don't think I am poormouthing. In Columbus, Ohio, where I moved frpom, $100K would make us "fucking loaded." But here in Chi, where everything costs three or four times as much--my property taxes are higher than my mortgage plus propert taxes were there, it doesn't. --jks