I'm on a dutch server because that's what r/machinists and a bunch of related subs migrated to. Not hard to find comments where I spell out my actual (US)location, nevermind that I always use dollar-signs explicitly.

Someone making over $100,000 strictly due to all the overtime they work, like a nurse or OTR trucker, is an entirely different matter, but at the same time, still the same people whose families are actually well-off but refuse to admit it due to the bread-winners' martyr complex, drug/alcohol/smoking habits and resulting legal issues, and yeah, sure, they are working themselves to death as if they have no choice in the matter. If you aren't making $100,000yr on 50 hours or less per week, going home almost every night, sit down, we aren't talking about you. As if that person is even reading this.

Insurance underwriters and Project managers? Some of the most deluded penny-pinchers I've ever met. You're talking people who should have a couple mil by middle-age, yet still will have nightmares about being poor in that case. HOW ARE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT ABOUT SAVING $5 A MONTH ON CAR INSURANCE!!!