There was a point in time when I think that you could not fail with a $10,000/mth income.

If you have never earn that amount, aspire to reach there, you could have thought of how much things you could buy with that.

I have never reached this monthly salary but I do have the months when I get that kind of cash flow when the bonus came in. But if you live a minimalist life, you think this kind of salary is excessive. And someone with this can have a high savings rate that could speed up your journey towards your financial independence.

There is a few levels of class in Singapore and for those who reached middle management in their late thirties and forties, this might be common. It might even be more common for the STEM graduates who worked for a few years.

The myopic part for me