Like I said before, $100,000 is in the top 16% of earners. Sure, nationwide, but even in San Francisco, that’s enough money made in one month to relocate and start over comfortably across 99% of the globe.
People aren’t static fixtures, much as privileged people in privileged cities like to pretend they are victims of circumstance, that its the rest of society disconnected from any notion of the true worthlessness of a measley dollar.
Personally, I grew up in California and have camped in Utah. Your numbers are pretending Salt Lake City, SF, LA and more don’t skew the numbers for their states to a ridiculous degree.
that’s enough money made in one month to relocate and start over comfortably across 99% of the globe.
Even minimum wage could get you there, assuming your budget is such that you are able to stay afloat. $10/hr is about $1800/month. If you stop paying rent and other bills, you could probably save more than half of that for 2-3 months before getting evicted. That’s enough for a couple airplane tickets and a month or so expenses assuming you have an apartment lined up. Couple that with selling all your stuff and you should make it okay. You could probably even qualify for a new credit card to further juice your cash stockpile.
Whether you can flee a country isn’t the proper metric here, at least for developed countries. The real differentiator is whether you’re in the ownership class or worker class (i.e. if you stop showing up to work, what happens?).
Like I said before, $100,000 is in the top 16% of earners. Sure, nationwide, but even in San Francisco, that’s enough money made in one month to relocate and start over comfortably across 99% of the globe.
People aren’t static fixtures, much as privileged people in privileged cities like to pretend they are victims of circumstance, that its the rest of society disconnected from any notion of the true worthlessness of a measley dollar.
Personally, I grew up in California and have camped in Utah. Your numbers are pretending Salt Lake City, SF, LA and more don’t skew the numbers for their states to a ridiculous degree.
Even minimum wage could get you there, assuming your budget is such that you are able to stay afloat. $10/hr is about $1800/month. If you stop paying rent and other bills, you could probably save more than half of that for 2-3 months before getting evicted. That’s enough for a couple airplane tickets and a month or so expenses assuming you have an apartment lined up. Couple that with selling all your stuff and you should make it okay. You could probably even qualify for a new credit card to further juice your cash stockpile.
Whether you can flee a country isn’t the proper metric here, at least for developed countries. The real differentiator is whether you’re in the ownership class or worker class (i.e. if you stop showing up to work, what happens?).
I stand by my original sentiment here: OOP himself is likely not even making $100k/yr. This owner/worker class discussion is tangental.