To be fed up with all the threads about high earners feeling poor

If someone on a high income says they work hard, why do you take it that they mean those on lower incomes don’t? I think some people have a chip on their shoulder.

Take it up with the government. It’s not illegal. I don’t think it’s even immoral, it’s just common sense if you look at the figures.

I think a lot of people would feel differently if they seen some actual figures, including the loss of personal allowance starting from £100k, combined with childcare costs. The government should probably look at how it could be done better. I guarantee that if you earned a bit above £100k, you would go the same rather than be thousands of pounds per year worse off. You might say you wouldn’t, but you would.

This! You put in effort at all income levels and you don’t get out what you’d parents got for similar efforts. Young adults (under 50-ish) on all income levels feel shafted.

That’s what gets me. People on low incomes work really hard, make sacrifices and have stressful jobs too.

OP, you don't live within MN you know. This forum is not about you! Its not here to pander to your concept of 'normal' or 'acceptable.' If you str expecting that, then you're over-invested. This is the internet! Anyone from anywhere and any walk of life can and will post about anything they like. What else would you expect?

The worst thing on here is the envy about "high earners," "private schools," "SAHMs" and so on. As if people are shocked that such people exist!

Well, they do - look around you - and they have their own questions / problems which are just as valid as yours and they have as much right to post as anyone else.

There are different types of hard work. And we need them all. Both high earners and low earners.

I don't understand why people get offended at 'I worked hard' statement. The most successful people I know did work really hard. They worked hard all through school, got qualifications then worked their way up the ladder.
I wish I'd worked that hard and not just coasted through the education system into my mediocre life.

I think it's impossible to walk in someone else's shoes and salary isn't the be all and end all as you don't know someone else's finances, situation especially when you throw the cost of childcare into the mix.

I earn well, my DH does a professional role reasonable salary. He might as well not work our childcare bill is above his take home pay each month but that leads to more difficulties down the line. We live in a 2 bed cottage hardly the life of Riley!

Don’t read them then!

Prefacing not preaching.

Hear hear! I am so tired of people preaching everything with " I am privileged but".or boring on about " gratutude". Just own it!

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I get really, really annoyed about people on exceptionally high salaries that are able to stuff loads more money into their pension so that they can get free childcare.
If you do that, you should be ashamed of yourself.

People have different life experiences, I don’t see why they can’t talk about it. I’m quite interested in how different people live.

I don’t mind some of them. I know people who earn well but have childcare costs of more than £3k with 2 kids. Along with very normal housing costs, food, bills, student loan, you can be on a good wage and not have much or anything left. I’ve seen posters in that situation receiving nasty posts.

Mumsnet is for everyone and I don’t think it’s right that only people with lower incomes can post without getting sarcastic responses.

Obviously if people post saying they feel poor because they can’t afford more diamonds or a third luxury holiday, that’s different, but most of the time that’s not the case. It’s posters who earn well but their money is taken up on high childcare cost and average other costs. People assume that £5k take home goes further than it does but with childcare, it doesn’t add up if you do the math.

No bias from me, I don’t moan about money, don’t have young kids etc, I just think most people has their issues.

It’s all relative.
I’ve been a high earner (well not mn high at £90k) but it drained my soul. I’m now on 40k plus - not long started and it’s a little boring, not quite as exciting as I’d thought but I have more time for DM and DD. I have so much more flexibility. Our mortgage is done, DH is a high earner (again not mn high, just over £100k) but we’re good, happy. I’d like more dogs, but hey ho.

We are older though 46 and 52. I wonder if the £200k plus earners are constantly upgrading things… so chasing that higher salary? I know people that earn waaay more than we do, who work 60 hour weeks- no thank you.

the answer right there. When all that matters is now that the fluctuating brain waves of emotional splurges people have are that taken for cemented reality????? - what else do you think is going to happen. Big pharma clapping their hands in delight

Earning much less, living much more comfortably, benefits not involved. It is called : using your brain. End of story

This one blows my mind. It's such a different world.

Personally I am far more fed up with people complaining that they haven't got enough inheritance or money from their parents.

For me, a lot of it comes down to choice.

I earn £24k a year and don't feel poor because I live within my means. I live in a flat rather than a house, I could afford a house if I stretched myself but I don't want to stretch myself and have barely anything left at the end of the month.

Appreciate many people live in expensive areas and have no choice but some people definitely stretch themselves to afford a "better" house. Sometimes you have to accept less if you don't want to struggle.

Also a lot of the moaning is about the cost of nursery fees which is a large amount of money, but is also temporary.

Strange take on it.

Is it that difficult not to read them then?

Mumsnet isn’t just for those with smaller incomes, and there is no one room that only said group are qualified to define. I find the complaining about it more annoying tbh, as it reads like “how dare you consider your own problems when you should be thinking about ME?”.