Okay, this is going to be a completely off topic rant, but:
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean shit anymore. It means you own a house in a city and are a well paid professional.
That is an incredibly privileged thing to be able to say tbh.
It’s also why any young-ish American complaining they’re poor should shut the hell up. I’d be on track to becoming a millionaire if I was allowed to do my job in the US. But the country doesn’t want me, I’m too white to even consider an H-1B, those all go to Indian folk lol
In my country, to become a millionaire, I need to set up a business, scam people, and do tax evasion. Because the salaries in my field are at LEAST 5x lower. Remember when the big tech companies hired people out of boot camps and gave them 200k annual salaries? Those guys would’ve gotten hired at 1200-1500 a month here at the same time.
Ah, but since our salaries are lower, cost of living must be low too? Nope, actually cost of living in a nice and “cheap” American city like San Francisco is only 50% more than CoL in our capital.
I would’ve given a lot to spend my 20s being a software engineer in the US and then fuck off to a country with a nice climate, good healthcare and low cost of living before any actual need for the healthcare kicks in. Just wasn’t in the cards for me though.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
A million invested could mean about 40k a year in passive income