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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    As someone who makes ok money I’d like people to understand that there really isn’t lower, middle and upper class. There’s people with “Fuck you” money and people without “Fuck you” money. $250k is not “Fuck you” money.

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      5 months ago

      $250k in capital gains has very different implications from $250k in salary.

      • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        $250k in cap gains represents about a million dollars of gain. That’s not enough to retire for most Canadians and is definitely attainable by a lot of workers.

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          5 months ago

          I’d love a million dollars in gains in a year…

          Heck, I’d love to have even half a million dollars of total assets.

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            5 months ago

            If you have a million dollars in gains for ONE year, like you sell an asset to retire, you get hit. I agree, multple years of $1m gains is excessive.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe if you can do 250k for 20-30 years you can retire nicely…

      Still not fuck you money tho haha

      Think about it

    • Aux@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Well, there IS an upper class here in the UK. It’s the people who own the country for the last thousand of years. Everyone else is a peasant in their eyes, no matter how much money you have.