There’s an awful lot of anger in this country.
There used to be a lot of love found in a 1200 square foot house with one car.
Do people really need an 8000 square foot house and four luxury cars and a vacation home and a boat and expensive vacations and submarines?
Madison Avenue is killing our happiness.
There’s nothing wrong with making a lot of money, but I don’t think it’s a cure-all.
Your points suggest that you think those earning more are only doing so at the expense of those earning less, and if those who are earning more earned less then the difference would reach those regularly earning less and they would have more. Its an economically unsound idea.
People are not earning less because of people earning more.
Lol. I see lots of big 4-5 bedroom homes with retired couples living in them. They aren’t empty nests. The homes were bought when the couples had no kids. It’s a type of status symbol. Having the Range Rover or BMW in the driveway seems to be required also. Though the logic of paying 10s of thousands of extra dollars for a car that is more likely to strand you than a 20 year old Subaru escapes me.
I’m not rich by most standards, even though I do make 6 digits to the left of the decimal. I also am a widower at age 49, supporting my three teenage kids (2 still in high school), and my 77 year old dad.
I bought 8+ acres of land and built a 2600 sq. foot, 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath, 1 story house on it. We’ve got enough room inside or outside to social distance (hell, we’ve done that for almost 20 years here, so I’m glad to put a name to my lifestyle).
For my empty nest/downsizing, I’m figuring within 5 years I’m selling the house and any vehicles I have, buying a 30-40 foot long twin engine cruiser, and only touching ground to get supplies, maybe someone else to cook and clean dinner, before heading 20-25 miles back off the coast.
I won’t need the land then, because if someone gets too close, I’ll run and gun the other way (take that however you will... deep sea accident, etc., yadda, yadda).