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Really depends on your perspective ... $34,000 per year will put you in the top 1% of income earners worldwide.

The fact that most people judge their own personal wealth based on the conspicuous consumption of the people around them, or through the massive debts they've built up keeping up with other's conspicuous consumption, most people in the developed world feel "poor" even though they're not.