Lifestyle sacrifices are news for the rich. Luckily there aren’t enough to support this kind of journalism.
Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article
MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
“The gardener used to come twice a month, but then he increased his costs from £230 a year to £245 a year. We only have him come once every other month now.”
I find it hard to believe a household with a combined salary (No bonus included) of £345k can’t scrape together an extra 15 quid.
Get the feeling this was deleted because they realised it was utter bollocks, though that’s not much better as they allowed it through.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Aux@feddit.uk 5 days ago
A household with £345k income is not rich, lol.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wtf are you talking about? You must be a billionaire.
This family earns more than the value of my house in a year.
If they carry on earning this and work for 30 years they will have amassed a fortune of £10m.
It also puts the family in the top 0.5% of earners in the country.
I think that makes them fairly rich.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Do you understand that your logic doesn’t make any sense? First of all, half of their income goes into taxes. Second - they still need to spend money on bills, food, etc. So it will take them a lot more than 30 years to get to £10m. They won’t live as long.
You’re also confusing top earning workers with the rich.
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
£181k is all you need to be in the top 1% in the UK.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Top 1% workers, not top rich.
Look, here’s a thing. 40% of all land in England is owned just by around 200 families. And they are laughing their arses off when they hear that peasants earning £181k per annum are rich.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk 4 days ago
one day I might earn that much in a year.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A household with that income is very rich.
Jesus, toffs are so separated from reality it’s unbelievable.
mriormro@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Some folks barley scraping by need to throw your ass to the ground and just beat the fuck out of you for saying such stupid shit.
I swear, every day rich folk are becoming increasingly more unbelievable.
Rawdogg@lemm.ee 4 days ago
No way this snobby cunt has money, Succesful people dont spend their time trolling on lemmy lol Sounds more like a spoiled child
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Ahaha, ok.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/…/latest/
That’s many times what the typical household income is, and most people would certainly consider that rich.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
But that’s not rich, lol.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Where the hell do you live that people regularly get more than that?
I would like your address and the times that you will not be in.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
Y’all should know Aux isn’t an actual person by now
WR5@lemmy.world 5 days ago
By what metric? Where would you define rich?
MrPoletki@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I’m not sure there is actually a proper definition of ‘rich’ that would allow you to accurately classify a group of incomes into rich and not rich.
But if you were to think of it in terms of the ‘feeling’ I’d say I’d feel rich if I never had to choose a cheaper option for anything at all, ever, could eat out and check into a hotel for the night any time I liked, all whilst currently putting away a handsome investment of some kind - but still have more disposable income than I could possible waste between income periods with nothing but my own debauchery (barring expensive drug habits).
That’s what I call rich, thing is, some people can achieve this on much less than others due to their tastes and circumstances. I’d feel rich if I worked 9-5 and took home upwards of £300k for sure. Others might not though.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 days ago
They’d have to delete the whole paper then.
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I know it’s not the point but a gardener isn’t doing shit for £230 a year. That must be a typo, that has to be monthly and if they have a big garden that could be weekly!
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I’d happily pay £240 a year for my garden, I have probably spent more than that on plants since I bought the house 2 years ago.