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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usually, to get a $250k job you need to have $250k job trappings, aka you're unlikely to get or keep that job while living, dressing or eating etc as a $50k job person, ending up in the situation you described.

Minimalism seems to be a way to escape the rat-race even through salary, but it seems like a strategy for after you have proven yourself indispensable in a high paying job, not something most people can or will achieve, or are able to then make the necessary life changes.

TLDR if you are a worker become part of a union no matter what salary you're on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Agreed, unions are the shit.