Oh, well when you put it that way, you’re right! It sure is hard to live on half a million a year!
Every apologia for the rich sounds like a call for revolution.
The more I look at this, the more enraged I become. These assholes live SO WELL and still have over $7k left at the end of the year but it’s “feeling average”? Bitch, the average person has never had $7k left over.
$10,000 for “miscellaneous, something always comes up.”
Look, I have a “something always comes up” cushion now (it’s certainly not that much, but it exists), and am grateful because I didn’t always have that, but “something always comes up” for EVERYONE and that usually means miss work or ride the bus because you can’t afford to get your car fixed or beg and borrow money from family/friends if you’re lucky enough to have that.
Your slush money budget alone is 20% the national median income, and you still end up with seven grand left over at the end of the year, shut the fuck up.
3 vacations a year, at $6,000 a piece.
1. The fuck they doing living in NYC and having a car? Land Cruiser in the fucking city? Get your ass to fucking Weehawken with that shit. Then you can buy a house that costs less than…
2. PROPERTY TAXES AND HOME MAINTENANCE ON A $1.5m HOUSE CRY ME A GODDAMN RIVER LINDA
3. Each spouse has a job that pays 250k a year and it doesn’t include life insurance? Every salaried job I’ve had offered life insurance.
4. Three vacations a year? $6k per vacation? I can go to FUCKING ANTARCTICA for less than $6,000.
5. Other than the kids, you know you can wear the same clothes from year to year, right? It’s amazing, I know!
This quote gets a lot of flak for its bad science and because its author, Norman Vincent Peale, is considered a quack and has unsavory associations… but I actually like its message a lot.
