Anonymous
ID: 7/V7AZcp
8/5/2025, 6:37:26 PM No.512300489
The general hand wave math on inflation is that prices are double what they were in 2000. After 2022, median wages and salaries caught up, and are also double what they were in 2000.
$100k today is a $54k salary from 2000.
What's fucked is that housing is 5x as expensive as 2000.
The most fucked thing of all is that tax brackets haven't adjusted for inflation. If you earn $120k a year, you're taxed at 60%. They're treating you like you make the equivalent of $240k a year, but you're really making $60k a year, so effectively your take home pay is $24k in 2000 dollars. Except, with housing 2.5x as expensive. Your 2000 housing monthly expense should be around $600, but out of $2000 monthly take home, you're actually paying $1800 for housing, leaving you $200 for all other expenses not to mention savings (which will get further creamed by inflation).
This shit is rigged. If you didn't buy a house before 2016, and don't have a massive portfolio of index fund investments, or don't make $250k dual income or >$350k, YOU'RE FUCKED. But even if you do make >$350k if you have student loans and live in a city ($4500 rent), YOU'RE FUCKED.
The fucked up part is that as bad as this economy is, if you're some Chink with slave driving parents and minimal talent, you went to Stanford or some shit, are making $450k and your wife is making $350k and you end up topping out over the inflation swamp line and have enough extra cash to doordash and go on Euro vacations as much as you could possibly want, buying three Teslas, all that gay shit, investing.
Or even if you're a Millennial that got set up with everything before 2015.
A sold 20% of this country is doing fucking great while the rest of everything is burning to the fucking ground.
$100k today is a $54k salary from 2000.
What's fucked is that housing is 5x as expensive as 2000.
The most fucked thing of all is that tax brackets haven't adjusted for inflation. If you earn $120k a year, you're taxed at 60%. They're treating you like you make the equivalent of $240k a year, but you're really making $60k a year, so effectively your take home pay is $24k in 2000 dollars. Except, with housing 2.5x as expensive. Your 2000 housing monthly expense should be around $600, but out of $2000 monthly take home, you're actually paying $1800 for housing, leaving you $200 for all other expenses not to mention savings (which will get further creamed by inflation).
This shit is rigged. If you didn't buy a house before 2016, and don't have a massive portfolio of index fund investments, or don't make $250k dual income or >$350k, YOU'RE FUCKED. But even if you do make >$350k if you have student loans and live in a city ($4500 rent), YOU'RE FUCKED.
The fucked up part is that as bad as this economy is, if you're some Chink with slave driving parents and minimal talent, you went to Stanford or some shit, are making $450k and your wife is making $350k and you end up topping out over the inflation swamp line and have enough extra cash to doordash and go on Euro vacations as much as you could possibly want, buying three Teslas, all that gay shit, investing.
Or even if you're a Millennial that got set up with everything before 2015.
A sold 20% of this country is doing fucking great while the rest of everything is burning to the fucking ground.
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