We are slow earners with expenses are worth more than what we earn and let's add the inflation rate this is the most type of cases that every normal people experience. Earning a high amount sometimes doesn't enough if we don't have a financial literacy of how we spend our hard earned money and how do we start a side hustle so that we have another source of income. Financial stability and financial freedom will come next if we were going to make ourselves more knowledgeable on how to manage financial aspects. Aside from financial literacy we should also focus to educate ourselves about what possible skills that we can acquire so that we can offer it to other people and we can have our another source of income or side hustle.
You do not have to be a slow earner, you just need to be living in a place that is not expensive and working in a place that is expensive, that is how you make money. I am not earning enough to consider myself "rich" by any means, in fact I am closer to poor than rich, if I lose my job then I can sustain just 2-3 months and then I will not have any money at all, back to zero for me, if I start to use my crypto investment then I will sustain maybe 6 months but that's it, then back to zero again.
So, I am close to "poor" in that sense, but as long as I keep making my salary, then I am doing decent enough for me, I am living like a regular person, work all day, handle all the chaos life throws at me, maybe watch few netflix shows a month, maybe go out to eat somewhere 2-3 times a month and that's it, it is literally all my life and I can afford to do it, no problem at all. Sometimes some unexpected stuff shows up, usually related hospital bills, that's when it gets tricky but that's fine, it is just life you know? What I do? I work for USD whereas my fiat is a lot less valuable, so I earn more than my peers.