>>>Just scrapping by with $200K are you? Working on your autobiography?
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>>>When you are getting close to 60 and planning for retirement, it isn't. When you have kids you are trying to put through college it isn't.
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>>I suppose that is one way to look at it.
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>>Another way is that sometimes when you spend a lot, you have a lot less than what you started with. But it doesn't change the fact that you started out with a statistically above average amount.
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>Your notion that $200K is too much is wrong. It is not too much for her:

I never said it was too much.


>she earned every single dollar of it. She didn’t steal it and nobody paid her or given her jobs for nothing. And, unless, she is a daughter of some millionaire, she started just like everybody else (by going to elementary, middle, high school, college, etc.).

I never claimed otherwise.


> She probably studied harder than others; worked harder than some others, worked longer hours, and that is how she got to $200K or whatever. And if she earns $400K next year it means she deserves it all.

I agree.


>What about some musical groups (since you are a musician)? Like for example AC/DC (I love them); should they give away all the money they earn and just leave around $150K (which should be enough to live on)? I don’t think so. They have talent and worked hard for their money. Otherwise we would have socialism.

I agree.

On the other hand, $200K combined income is about 4-5X as much as the national average.

If most people get by on a small fraction of that, it is no major stretch of the imagination to consider that a lot of money.