The guy making 250K a year isn’t worried about not being able to put food on the table. But maybe he has a monthly car payment that is more than the person making 28k a year pays per month in rent.
But that’s only because I’m automatically investing 70% of my paycheck so I never have more than a few weeks of expenses in cash.
I can imagine getting very biased results depending on how to survey is worded.
In my case, an unexpected expense just means I take a short term margin loan against my portfolio (at an insane interest rate) until my next paycheck.
The point of my comment was that wording of survey questions can result in biased results.
I don't think you're grokking the common definition of "paycheck-to-paycheck", or are willfully ignoring it to make a point (and doing so poorly).
The point I’m trying to make is bias in surveys