Mine personally, I’d beg to differ. My housing payment is $800/month + utilities.

I work in a pretty lean environment, we have a lot of meetings but I would say very high productivity. Constant alignment is key amongst our leadership team.

I have not read the article, so will take you at face value. From my experience negotiating on the local tax incentives, they are 100% looking for revenue.

Assuming a fixed level of retirement visas, and demand in excess of the limit, richer people will move in and generate more tax revenue.

I’m the short term, maybe some people leave. Longer term, richer people will move there. That’s my assumption.

Granted I’m not close to the retirement visa issue, limits, history etc. but it’s clear the government has a revenue problem and longer term they will raise requirements and likely still be attractive.

I personally love the Penang area and would move there in early retirement if it was an option.

They are looking for revenue. My company has favorable tax treatment there and will be applying to renew the status. They have significantly increased the requirements to maintain the tax treatment there. They need more revenue, it’s crystal clear.

Too subjective, but at a minimum the ability to Mac out all tax deferred accounts and still live comfortably (unless you pay $3k a month in rent in the VHCOL).

I still live like I make $60k a year.

Databases are far superior, in my experience people are just afraid of them. For data storage, and regular processing I’ve moved this to access for myself, but as a company excel is still the powerhouse for us. We have commercial plugs ins too that allow us to access data but you don’t get the flexibility of owning the database like you can with access. I can do whatever the hell I want, and even blow it up if I’m stupid.

Why the hate for excel? It’s a great tool.

A lot of people knock excel, I love it. I’ve learned to how automate most of my tasks, including interacting with commercial plug ins and libraries via VBA.

Before my current role, my secret weapon was my ability to automate mundane tasks. There are better solutions available if you can make the business case and get the company to invest, but for me I could spend a day writing code and then let the program run and complete my work while I went to lunch or screwed around.

About $300k total comp, yes.

Still doing better than me reference, but was pointing out how large the gap is.

The local Tesla store was talking about one of their service managers bought a house cash because of his stock options. Not a bad deal as a former auto shop tech.

The cost of the replacement is going to be the cost of your deductible. Your insurance company won’t do anything. Replace it and then sue the trucking company in small claims court.

Let the air out of their tires.

Head of finance, manufacturing sector.

Honestly, as others have said. $100k isn’t all that much these days but it still makes your life easier and can save if your frugal.

My reference point of $100K was when I was a freshman in high school. Adjusted for CPI, you need $170k for the same lifestyle today.

PowerPoint is 50% of my life, excel is the other 50%.

Yes the cost of inventory is an issue, but the higher prices will last longer than the retailers inventory turns.

Prices tend to be sticky, the retailers will pad their margin for awhile before market prices come down.

Remember, the great thing about America is that we have choices. They have the choice to move there, but I shouldn’t need to subsidize their EV purchase because they choose to live in an area with stupid rent. Everyone wants a handout, and will justify it for their self interest.

And those are people who probably should have waited to buy. What happened when the credit went away, the price went down.

Remember, these are the same people who complained their car lost value when Tesla lowered the prices. Catch 22.

Tesla sells 100% of the cars they can make, and the mix of cars on the road is a function of supply and availability. Not sure how any of this matters, luxury or not, we should not subsidize rich people at the expense of low and middle class.

You can live very comfortably on $100k, life is about choices, and choosing to move to a VHCOL area is just that, a choice.

25 years old, living in high cost areas, with $2k rent probably shouldn’t be buying $40K cars. I can’t control how people spend their money, but surely don’t want to subsidize them.

Less focus on real structural problems in our country, not giving rich tech bros a handout.

Do you really think $10k matters to some buying $130k cars, it doesn’t. Yes, they’ll take the free money, who wouldn’t. But they’re not buying simply because the tax credit.

But the rich people are going to buy an EV regardless, and I’d wager they’ll pay a premium for them too.

I’d prefer not to subsidize rich people, coming for an individual with both an EV and 7 figure investment portfolio. Let’s actually help people that need it.