Maybe a bit of everything, though in my experience people outside the US significantly underestimate how much successful professionals in the US earn. For exam

Maybe a bit of everything, though in my experience people outside the US significantly underestimate how much successful professionals in the US earn. For example, this article [1] says that to be in the top 1% of earners in the US a family needs to make $600k or more. There are 330 million people in the US, meaning that 3.3 million people are in a household earning $600k or more. I think that's a lot! [1] https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-the-1-by-state-2022 https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-t...