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mk  ·  4379 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: How do you define wealth? What is "rich" to you?

Rich is a comparison. On a global scale, if you make $50k per year, you are rich. In the US, if you make $200k, you are rich in most places that you go.

However, if you live in a community in the US where most people make about $200k, then you aren't rich unless you make something like $500k. If you live in a community where most people make $1M, rich might be $10M to you.

I've felt rich, had more, then felt less rich.





b_b  ·  4379 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Per your point, I think it was WC Fields who said that a rich man is someone who has more money than his wife's sister's husband.

kleinbl00  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband."

- H. L. Mencken

b_b  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah Mencken. Thanks.

thenewgreen  ·  4379 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Then I'm poor.

user-inactivated  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I'm finally rich ;)

cliffelam  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shoot, dude, rich is when your wife makes more than you and still cooks you cake for your birthday.

-XC

thenewgreen  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We should all be so lucky :)