The average household income in the US -- one of the wealthiest countries in the world -- is, like, $55k/yr.
If you've got some 9-to-5 job pulling down $80k/yr with no kids or dependencies, you're rich to a lot of people.
If you've got some 9-to-5 job pulling down $80k/yr with no kids or dependencies, you're rich to a lot of people.
The Micawber principle (from David Copperfield) comes to mind here: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery." 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, so the difference between happiness and misery is a single shilling (or 1/20 of a pound).