Can't comparison about rich and poor mindset depend them have to spent money for daily day needed, no doubt easy for rich people spent their money for investing but we can't fault about poor mindset about their money have spent more without used half for investing. Having contrast difference between rich and poor person about their money management.
I think still at young age and haven't family is the best way how to adopt with rich mindset and never spent money for something not really important, when having family I don't know can't spent half of our income due many necessities in everyday life. I hope here for every one adopted with rich mindset when still single and don't waste your money for not really urgent needed.
That's the difference and the threshold for sure. If you do not worry about regular life expenses, if you have enough money that it's not a problem to pay the bills, then you are rich, that's my understanding of rich.
This is about 4-5 thousand dollars in most places of the world, outside of places like London or New York for example. But in my nation, if you are making more than 5k per month, and it's guaranteed so not like in 10 years suddenly you are poor, I mean guaranteed income? In that case you are rich. And those people could have a lot better investments because even if they fail, the worst case is not worrying about money, best case, being even richer than you were.
Actually, you make a very good point here justdimin.
The sensation of richness is being able to live within your means based on the income that you have and to NOT have any feelings that you are being deprived in any kind of material and/or meaningful way.
Accordingly, if you are able to live within your means based on the cashflow that you generate, and then if you have extra that you can invest without feeling that you are taking away from your ability to live in a way that you believe is sufficiently comfortable, then that ongoing investment is a bonus that likely will continue to grow and will likely ongoingly allow you to increase your standard of living with the passage of time. Surely any of us can get spoiled in terms of feeling that we need certain material items to live, and likely we would prefer to be increasing our standard of living with the passage of time, rather than feeling as if we have to cut back with the passage of time.
Let me use the lower end of your number of $4,000 per month to live comfortably... that's $48k per year... That seems to be more than necessary.. and even from that number it is quite possible that $1k per month could be used for investment and only $36k is actually used or needed for living expenses and to still live relatively comfortably. Of course, if you have a family then you do need more than what would be considered to be supporting a single person.. so the number can vary in regards to the family considerations, too. If you are able to invest $1k per month ($12k) per year, then it may well take you three years to get to a point of having enough to have 1 year's worth of living expenses saved up (that is not accounting for how much that investment might appreciate.. but we could just try to presume that it is keeping up with inflation at a minimum and perhaps growing slightly beyond just sitting there and devaluating).