How Rich Are You ?
 

That's the title of the article below. No need to answer !! :unsure:;)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/b...h-are-you.html

It's a succinct little table and if you times it by 1.6X or 1.8X or 2.0X it probably converts for Canada too.

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Bloody Telegraph - blocks me - and I refuse to subscribe. How rich am I then?

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100%

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Doesn't seem right to me at all. According to that chart, we were on the 9th level in the UK, but that income certainly didn't make us rich. I was very comfortable in our 3bed semi and didn't want to move- which was good as we couldn't afford the next rung on the ladder. We had to watch money carefully...although I appreciate our fortunate position.

Ooh I've just had a thought is that meant to be after tax? I could move down several rungs if so:)

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Very rich...the Telegraph is blocked for you. :)

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It's the Telegraph, comfort food for the lumpen-bourgoisie.

I want to know how high I rank in the top ten percentile now that the OH has retired early.

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Someone else on BE suggested a way around that. If you put your browser (Chrome) on Incognito mode you should be able to view articles.

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using that chart and converting our household income for 2013 into pounds, we fall into the bottom category.

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Ah I see but only cause I had to go and bloomin google it. Never heard the "Lumpen" part of that expression before. Thought you were making words up again for half a sec;) but now I realise you're just more intelligent than moi :p

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Nor has anyone else. I was rather pleased with the bilingual compound noun, so I asked my nonsensically intelligent trilingual son (sitting in the next room over, playing some sort of video thingy) if I'd coined a new word.

He said, "Yes, Dad, you're sick you know?"

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I think 'sick' is good with the youfs.

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One never knows.

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I believe it to be the case that both of my working children are in the top 10%, one in the UK, one in Canada. Are they rich? Give over, even with funding for one degree each, they have each have massive student debt from subsequent qualifications. Maybe most people earning the incomes shown at the top of the scale are rich but it's not because of the income so much as the fact that coming from money makes you more likely to have a high income.

Signed,

A Broke Guy.

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Dear Broke Guy,

I understand your dilemma. The fundamental flaw in the Torygraph (can I say it again, oh, please:), lumpen-bourgoisie shit, is that being rich is not directly (or even vaguely) connected to income.

A Smug Liberal.

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More money more problems.