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

[trekking1]

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

The thread @MNHQ commented on threatening to ban posters witch hunting the op - which is what you’re now doing?

No, that poster wasn’t complaining she couldn’t have five holidays a year. She travelled 2-3 times a year as her family live abroad and she wants to see them.

She also wasn’t complaining she didn’t have enough. She was saying she felt like others who brought home the same or less seemed to make their money go further. People are allowed to want to get the most out of what they earn.

Haven't RTFT, apologies.

I feel the exact opposite, OP- I think it would be a shame if people felt they could only ask for help and support with money if they were broke. Actually lots of us could do with advice on money and that includes people who earn a reasonable amount but are struggling to manage it well. And this goes double for people who want to discuss pensions, where so many of us have too little saved- it's really important to be able to talk about it.

I generally feel that our national squeamishness about money is incredibly unhelpful and (especially when it comes to things like pay rises and pensions) disadvantages women in particular who are on average less likely to ask for a pay rise and more likely to be saving too little.

Obviously it would be annoying if someone claimed to be a low earner while being paid a lot but most of the threads I've seen are the opposite- people acknowledging they are well paid but still having trouble managing money.

You are determined to hang out to the five holidays a year comment, get a grip that was just an example. Yes they are allowed to be out of touch and I am also allowed to point out that they are being out of touch.

Equally, others are allowed to point out that you’re incredibly self absorbed to think this message board has to be tailored to your liking. That you choose to keep clicking on and engaging with threads you know annoy you is entirely your own fault. No one is obliged to stop posting because you can’t help yourself.

I never said they need to stop posting and that this site needs to be tailored to me, I said they were obnoxious and out of touch

They don’t need to be ‘in touch’ with you and reflect your reality.

You say they’re obnoxious, yet apparently you can’t stop reading them. Self inflicted problem, that.

As MNHQ said on the thread that you tried to link. Everyone has a right to post without name calling - if people can’t start doing that they will ban them.

Not a good example, because it doesn’t exist. My whole point is that you’re exaggerating to make the issue sound far worse than it is. Stop railing on people for having financial anxiety during a recession.

Obnoxious?

Those high earners pay for services that pay wages. That’s the base line.

When high earners stop spending, jobs are lost.

We all move down the chain.

@Scarletttulips

Actually that is the much debunked trickledown economics.

High earners have a higher marginal propensity to save than lower and middle earners, so actually the country does a lot better when low and middle earners are earning more than higher income earners.