Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.

• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some of my peers should be rich enough to retire, but fell victim to lifestyle inflation. Sure they’re making $250k/year, but they moved into a $5k/mo apartment, go on expensive vacations, and just do whatever in their day to day. I don’t know where their money goes. Maybe they are secretly investing.

  Meanwhile I live like a goblin on less

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they spend it.

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I did have a coworker that was both a picky eater and didn’t cook. She’d order seamless (GrubHub) for most meals. That’s got to be like… $30/meal, two meals a day so $60, seven days a week, ~$400/week? My monthly food budget is like $200. Plus she’d go out drinking. Guess that adds up. That’s like $100k over five years.

      She also had an expensive gym membership she didn’t use and was too shy to cancel.

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