How your income stacks up

[The Brain]

Why would anyone quit working?

[Eddie Teach]

Because we're lazy.

[Malthus]

I just want you to be happy, and living in self denial isn't it Mal!

Oh, I don't deny myself a few treats and trinkets.  But fact is that working all the time isn't the picture of the sort of lifestyle I think of when I think of "rich".

I think more of relaxing on a sailboat in the Carribian with a bunch of hott chicks* and a martini.

*note: insert sex object of choice here

[katmai]

I think more of relaxing on a sailboat in the Carribian with a bunch of hott chicks* and a martini.

Sounds like my Brother's job*, and he ain't rich

Well the sailing the Caribbean part, not so much the martini and no idea about the hott chicks.

[Ed Anger]

I'm middle class, with just a hint of old school white trash. 

[crazy canuck]

But fact is that working all the time isn't the picture of the sort of lifestyle I think of when I think of "rich".

My wealthiest clients would never stop working.  They really enjoy what they do.  Dreaming about not working has little to do with how much money one has a much more to do with the level of enjoyment one gets from their work.

Control has a lot to do with that enjoyment.  I like my work a lot more since I began controlled my own files.

[crazy canuck]

And Jacob, check your PMs.

[Malthus]

But fact is that working all the time isn't the picture of the sort of lifestyle I think of when I think of "rich".

My wealthiest clients would never stop working.  They really enjoy what they do.  Dreaming about not working has little to do with how much money one has a much more to do with the level of enjoyment one gets from their work.

Control has a lot to do with that enjoyment.  I like my work a lot more since I began controlled my own files.

I do not hate the work, what I dislike is its all-consuming nature; even if I loved every minute of it, I'd still want a good balance, which is notoriously hard to achieve in this (or indeed any) profession. No amount of enjoyment of work is ever going to reconcile me to working so much. 

I'd probably be bored by a life of total leasure.

[crazy canuck]

I do not hate the work, what I dislike is its all-consuming nature; even if I loved every minute of it, I'd still want a good balance, which is notoriously hard to achieve in this (or indeed any) profession. No amount of enjoyment of work is ever going to reconcile me to working so much. 

I'd probably be bored by a life of total leasure.

If you controlled how much work you did and when you did it, it would not be all consuming.

[Josephus]

I like how all the lawyers come rushing in and saying "we're not rich!"

That's my point. They hold onto the myth that they are in the same class as, according to the OP, those that make $35,000/yr.

[Josephus]

I just want you to be happy, and living in self denial isn't it Mal!

Oh, I don't deny myself a few treats and trinkets.  But fact is that working all the time isn't the picture of the sort of lifestyle I think of when I think of "rich".

I think more of relaxing on a sailboat in the Carribian with a bunch of hott chicks* and a martini.

*note: insert sex object of choice here

Can I come along with you some day, Malthus...I know some nice "Hott" chicks.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Stupid stats. My Brother would qualify for the top 10% earners but he's in debt up to his eyeballs, so not so "rich" really.

A lot of people earning between 30k and a few hundred share that situation. The so called middle class is now some kind of debtor's prison work-release program set up by bailed out banks and CC companies (who have no standards imposed on them whatsoever)

People in the top 1% sometimes share in the stupidity of debt, but some don't, just like the rest of us,

[Josephus]

I disagree. What sort of debt does a $100K earner have compared to a $30K earner?  A larger home? A nicer car? All of which can be downgraded to manage that debt.

[Berkut]

I disagree. What sort of debt does a $100K earner have compared to a $30K earner? 

A student loan.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I disagree. What sort of debt does a $100K earner have compared to a $30K earner?  A larger home? A nicer car? All of which can be downgraded to manage that debt.

sure they could be. but you are assuming most people are smart enough and ungreedy enoiugh to even think about that. They aren't.