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Would that be gross or net pay? In the UK salaries are almost always offered at the yearly gross income

I did 7 rounds for a job application at a big streaming service, each time meeting different teams eventually meeting more senior managers

Great Britain isn't England. England is about 60% of Great Britain, which includes Scotland and Wales.

As you can see on your Belgium "zoom," the entire country can fit centered on south and western England and be comparably dense. The Midlands are also moderately dense, while only northern England, Scotland, and Wales are truly sparse. Notably for Scotland, since I looked it up quickly, the population density is 1/15 that of Belgium on average. But it's all concentrated in the areas that are connected.

Everything should be on the same scale too. Mountains, rivers but also sheer size tend to make a difference. The Netherlands are much smaller than France, so obviously building a rail network is going to be much different.

Thanks - I hear you about the psychology of underreporting, but I feel like there has to be (or should be) more nuance.

And the one or two studies I’ve seen have had issues with lack of segmentation or reporting scales, or articles written that misconstrue the insights to get a good headline.

Like I mentioned, I don’t think of class as a 3-point scale solely on income (upper, middle, lower). If that were the case, I don’t think you would need surveys. IMO, it’s a mix of wealth (not just income), lifestyle & disposable spend that needs to be looked at in a segmented (geo, age, etc.) to have value. For example, maybe when we’re in our 50s, I would think of us as a higher class, but not with our high, high fixed expenses and coming out of school a few years ago. It should also be more granular than a 3 point scale, but that’s neither here nor there.

Do we have a 1% or 2% income for the US? Sure. But as /u/TriFolk mentions, it’s more complicated.

Anecdotally, I just purchased some jeans the other day and signed up for a rewards program to save $ on shipping and found a discount code, so it’s hard for me to classify us in the same group as the older folks driving Lucids around Manhattan Beach, it that makes sense.

It would also be interesting to see a comparable scale. Belgium is randomly depicted as three times the size of the UK.

In the future, if you ever think you’re ‘100% right’ about something, that probably means you’re wrong.

How long did it take them to do an application on average?

Or we reach a point, say 20 years from now, where gasoline distribution becomes so limited that it’s no longer economical to keep a gas powered car.

You hear back from 50% of applications?

As a German from the lower right corner I feel this is optimistic (yes there are routes but they are often serviced only once/twice a day).

5 rounds of soliciting? Wtf

I hope some of these 4+ interview ones were multiple interviews with different people on the same day. Like interviewing with 3 people at the company for an interview counts as 3. I surely hope so because more than 3 seems like a total waste of time for all involved.

Care to share some techniques? I work in tech and struggle with being present

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I understand what you did but I think large bodies of water should have a separate colour. Otherwise the interpretation of your map is that there's no transport on lake Zürich because the government can't be bothered to put public transport there, rather than.. It's a lake

Should that credit be in english or.... suisse?

Compare these maps with population density. For example Italy vs France (here. If we consider infrastructures, the South of Italy compares better with Africa than with Europe. And someone is considering to build a bridge between Calabria and Sicilia on Stretto di Messina. We will have a beautiful cathedral in the fucking desert.

Awesome! This is good news for me as a middle wage worker. Means I’ll be low wage soon, then my wage will grow.

Right?!

… right?

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Eh... I'm on a scholarship studying to become a mindfulness meditation teacher.

Some graduates have gone on to start businesses that teach mindfulness to corpos.

So I'll probably just be leading mandatory wellness classes you hate....or don't. It's nice and actually works.

Sure, with credit please :)

I thought the same. But when you add it up, your effective tax rate is 40%... meanwhile, Trump paid an effective tax rate of 4% in 2018. And he's certainly not the only true 0.1%er paying ridiculously low effective tax rates.

So take any win you can get against the system.

(FWIW, 40% effective rate on a 568k W2 income is pretty damn great especially in a high tax regime like CA. Similar income profile in NYC and I sit around 45-49% effective tax rate.)

I was asking as it has been shown again and again that most people believe they are in the middle-class, even when they are obviously not.

You are in the top 1% in the US. Which is clearly not the middle class. In LA/SF/NYC, you are in the top 2%, still not middle class at all.