depends

 

good point, i guess i should look at this at more than one view. i guess if your making money and you dont have a lot of commitments (kids, big house, nice car, wife, etc.) then maybe things would be different. at the same time if your not making a lot of money and you have no aspirations of getting expensive materials and does not have a lot of bills then stress would not really creep up on you.

i guess its different for each individual and their situation.

but 100k a year would be pretty sweet.

 

its dangerous to have more money than brain

sometimes its about how you spend it rather than how much you spend

 

Depends on the woman, if a girl is prime talent why would she give a wage slave the time of day?

Prime talent should have no problem attracting a trust fund fund kid. There is nothing noble to latching yourself to a poor slob.

If she is a plain jane well then she and he will marry into their station in life. Meaning avg. Joe marries plain Jane who have comparable earning potential.

Like it or not we have a class system in the US (lower,middle ,upper). People normally marry within their own class. Seldom will a wage slave hook up with a sugar momma or sugar daddy.


To answer the original question, depends on where the money is being earned. In SoCal near the beach, 60 or 100 does not buy or change your life for squat. Maybe in cheaper parts of the country this may change your lifestyle.

 

for a single person, extremely marginal "perceptible" disposable income
just more toys (ipod, xbox, audio) more frequently...
the real value is obviously salary-based savings accumulating more quickly

the big hump is going from a "working-wage" where one is counting paychecks (ie 30k - can i afford to buy cable tv or not?) to a decent pay (ie 60k - dont have to think about whether or not to go out for a meal)

after that, its all incremental... *slightly* bigger house, *slightly* bigger tv, *slightly* higher quality wine... which all adds up fast

thats why people say ( and i firmly believe) that money != happiness. after the gap where one goes from paycheck-to-paycheck, to being able to easily afford basic necessities (shelter, clothing, food), then theres no real meaningful increase in quality of life

 

i'm a military brat, and an aerospace engineer now. i make $50k/yr gross. i'm working on a world record breaking aircraft for DARPA--very interesting stuff. my company may be going under at this very moment; they owe me two months in back wages.
we aren't poor, but we sure aren't rich either.

my wife, whose parents are well off (est net worth >= $1M), is in her 4th year of med school. she'll be a radiologist, and she'll earn 6-8 times my current wage in about 6 years.

we married for love, and we've both often wished she wasn't committed to such a demanding education so we could enjoy more time together. it'll pay off financially in the end, but money isnt the most important thing to us.

money is only an issue if you feel you don't have enough.

i think the 'class system' is more a reflection of who people meet and what their values are than anything else.