| ▲ | runako 4 days ago | |
The median income in San Francisco is $69k. In New York City, it's $41k. Median household incomes are ~2x those numbers. A $120k job in any region of the country is 'high income'. You are feeling a different effect, which is that we have designed our country such that even high income people often do not feel economically secure. | ||
| ▲ | A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
Stop. Just because that is the median income does not automatically make it high. The value of the income comes from what it is able to purchase. That value has been steadily eroded over the year. If anything, it is indictment of the existing system. If anything, the proper way of looking at it is that the actual value you are able to get for your work has been greatly reduced. The number is meaningless to anyone, who is able to look at basic reality ( or does not depend on status quo for one reason or another ). The sheer balls on people to suggest that high absolute value automatically means it is high. And that is before we get to how those jobs are are not even in the same category... I am going to stop here, because I don't want to get mean. | ||