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

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trekking1 · 23/03/2024 17:46

It's always the same condescending "I've worked so hard and only have a 3 bedroom house in a great location and an expensive car", as if 1. that's not a lot 2. people who make 5 times less do not work as hard!

And the suprised pikachu face that having a degree did not magically get them a 500k job. That is not how capitalism works folks

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WhatWhereWho · 23/03/2024 18:16

I agree. I earn millions every year and do not brag about it on here.

maddening · 23/03/2024 18:14

Don't answer or read them then, I get fed up of the people who then pile on those threads going on about "tone deaf" and getting arsey about them having problems when they have money - as if you can't find something difficult. Just don't engage with threads you don't like.

Tbh if you can't complain/be worried/ask for advice etc if there is someone else worse off than you then v few people in the UK could actually post.

Louis44 · 23/03/2024 18:14

BorderBelle · 23/03/2024 18:01

"It's always the same condescending "I've worked so hard and only have a 3 bedroom house in a great location and an expensive car"

Its probably not always that people are ungrateful as such. It's that, 20 years ago, the same job would have bought you a 5 bedroom house in a great location - with smaller monthly mortgage payments - and an expensive car, and a lot else.

I grew up in the 1980s and while some people were relatively well off, a much bigger proportion of the population are miles better off today. In the early 2000s there was a massive rise in living standards and I suppose if that’s all that people have known I could understand them having this attitude. Personally we have good salaries and are very grateful for the standard of living we have as is far better than in the 80s, e.g. we might have 10 year old cars but my parents couldn’t even afford any car etc. Would say there is doesn’t seem to be much difference in lifestyles between families on 50-70k or 35k can afford these days due to how the tax/benefit/student loan system works

Deliadidit · 23/03/2024 18:14

Cottoncandyflavaflav · 23/03/2024 18:09

I have no time for it. "Boo hoo I don't have any money left because I have spent it all. People with only a fraction of my income don't know the pain. Their outgoings are far less because they can't buy much. They don't know what it is like having to pay a big mortgage for an expensive house or having to make big pension contributions for a high income in retirement, or what it is like having to afford expensive cars and holidays and their children don't have tutors or school fees or private health care or fancy school trips or many activities so they hardly have to pay for anything and they get £90 child benefit a month but I get no help (other than towards childcare and tax savings on my massive pension contributions)."

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Whenwillitgetwarm · 23/03/2024 18:12

And the race to the bottom continues…. What a sad sad country this has become.

Trisolaris · 23/03/2024 18:11

I think the frustration is more if you make lots of sacrifices to be a high earner and have little to show for it.

e.g Moving away from friends and family, long commute, delaying relationships and children to be career-focused.

Cottoncandyflavaflav · 23/03/2024 18:09

I have no time for it. "Boo hoo I don't have any money left because I have spent it all. People with only a fraction of my income don't know the pain. Their outgoings are far less because they can't buy much. They don't know what it is like having to pay a big mortgage for an expensive house or having to make big pension contributions for a high income in retirement, or what it is like having to afford expensive cars and holidays and their children don't have tutors or school fees or private health care or fancy school trips or many activities so they hardly have to pay for anything and they get £90 child benefit a month but I get no help (other than towards childcare and tax savings on my massive pension contributions)."

SuePotato · 23/03/2024 18:04

Yes 100%

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Spirallingdownwards · 23/03/2024 18:04

It's as annoying as people starting threads to say I am fed up with people who earn more than me saying they are struggling.

MumChp · 23/03/2024 18:03

Don't spend your energy on it. Waste of time and energy.

BorderBelle · 23/03/2024 18:01

"It's always the same condescending "I've worked so hard and only have a 3 bedroom house in a great location and an expensive car"

Its probably not always that people are ungrateful as such. It's that, 20 years ago, the same job would have bought you a 5 bedroom house in a great location - with smaller monthly mortgage payments - and an expensive car, and a lot else.