Board for high earners

[BellesAndGraces]

I see that the other thread was started by an OP who wasn’t engaging in good faith. I certainly am so, Mumsnet, can we please have a separate board for high earners? It would be helpful for these threads to be in one place and to avoid them being high jacked by the inevitable “small violin” and “diamond shoes” comments.

A skilled Tradesman who does beautiful joinery and timber framing-?
Sorry, quite beyond the pale.

on the flip side some of those poor think the rich should have their wealth taxed more etc and they are not allowed to be that rich and that the poor prefer a more communism style redistribution of the wealthy peoples wealth (not all but some)

excatly, i mean people are there to aspire to people like alan sugar, richard branson etc so why not have high earning business women too to aspire too.

A PhD? It is a DPhil in Oxford! Shocking!

Ironically some tradies are probably high earners! Would they be allowed to join in this exclusive board?!

This is an excellent analogy! Except that what @BellesAndGraces is suggesting is that the high earners should have a table in the corner of the back bar where they can go and talk quietly among themselves if they know the topic might be triggering without anyone else needing to throw a drunken tantrum and start a brawl.

The original thread was to ask for financial advice so that is where that came from.

The whole point of MN is that anyone and everyone can contribute to a thread so I’m not sure how you would stop anyone and everyone posting on a high income thread.

The whole idea is unbelievably crass.

Come live with me if you want, it's all brought to life

Well, yes. That’s the joke. It’s a tired cliche said ironically.

its when people start taking the biscuit and not in the spirt of the thread that then causes issues

I once met a woman with two - she was somewhat prone to exaggeration, her business card said 'PhD²'

So how is having a separate board going to stop that?

easy dont behave then insta ban

The funny thing is I grew up dirt poor - my guess is far poorer than a lot of the complainers on this thread. I don’t ever recall having this vitriol for those who had more than us.

In the US success is applauded and celebrated. Here (especially Mumsnet) mainly jealousy. So much jealousy. I look up to high earners as I do to lower earners who work just as hard.

I thought mumsnet demographic is popularly known for being middle class with high-earning dh with important jobs, and higher earning women, so why is a separate board needed when MN is predominantly that?

On the other hand, why is it a problem to speak about high earning and high earners' issues especially on a separate board if this is such a normal thing on mumsnet?

Either way, could it be that the mumsnet demographic reputation is false?

Well, if the threads were on a different board presumably they wouldn’t be so triggering to all those who pile on with “tiny violins”.

And equally it would be easier to suggest to someone who did pile on that if the topic upset them they might benefit from hiding it.

Then maybe you wouldn’t have someone who was asking for advice following her husbands suicide having to ask for her thread to be deleted.

Alas, if you have to ask ...

Then you may post… as you know a ginger!!! Also those with ginger cats/dogs/hamsters etc….may post. ☺️

What kind of biscuit?

So is that going to be applied to the ‘high earners’ board or all other boards as well? The mods are going to be very busy.

gingernuts

Well, who is stopping anyone from starting a thread about high earning women and their achievements?

I have seen a few AMAs from high earning Mumsnetters that have been really well received - the OP sharing her experience and answering questions about the kind of work she does and what it's like. Instead of snarky comments, people were genuinely interested and admiring.

Then you see the AMAs or threads which are not about work at all - they are just about being rich. There was one AMA about having a household income of £500k or similar, and it was like getting blood out of a stone to find out the source of the income (turned out to be the husband's scaffolding business). Instead, the OP just wanted to talk about how many ovens she had in her kitchen (four, iirc). Naturally, everyone took the piss out of this deeply dull showing off thread.

well thats upto mn hq

People are being snarky because we have a big problem with wealth disparity in the UK which is becoming more stark, obvious and problematic. To come into a place where the likelihood of the majority being at the bottom of the scale and very often with limited opportunity to redress that to ask for a special place to talk about your money problems is going to get people’s ganders up. The fact that you are so prickly about the responses kinda demonstrates the point really. It’s the tone, it’s always about the tone.

https://www.jrf.org.uk/narrative-change/changing-the-narrative-on-wealth-inequality#:~:text=Wealth%20inequality%20is%20high%20and%20rising%20and%20more%20marked%20than,from%2052.5%25%20in%201995).