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krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Undaunted@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know where you live and what currency you’re talking about, but 180k € a year in Germany would put you in the top 1% of highest incomes in the whole country. That’s waaaaaay above “livable”.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are cities in the US where that’s about middle class, I’m assuming that’s where they’re from

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    • krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I live in California. It’s a working class wage and will make it so i have a modesto pension, but my real money will come from my investments. I should have 4.5 million saved by retirement unless everything goes belly up.

      I used to make 100k a yr in 2000, and i will tell you what i was middle class then. To have the same purchasing power i would need to make 350k a year. I’ve had to cut back a lot.

      I would hate to be a new person entering this economy now, it would be even worse. The average mortgage for a median house here is 4.5k a month. After taxes and living expenses making my salary would be almost impossible to start a family as a single income household. I wouldn’t call that middle class. I would call that working poor.

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      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wait… sorry? In what world is 180k USD/year “working class”? I make the equivalent of like 70k/year before my nordic-country taxes take their share. That puts me decently well off here, at least above “working class” wage. I was in the US a couple years back, and prices were lower than they are here.

        Like, at 70k/yr (before Nordic taxes), I felt like I was pretty well off in the US. Definitely not lower-end at least. How on earth does that translate to 180k/yr being “working class”?

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  made a good meat egg

  Sir, they’re called Scotch eggs

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