Average rent in the US is currently about $1,700. For you to be "financially stable" aka not at heightened risk of homelessness, it's advised you make 3x your rent. That's $61,200/yr. That's the minimum we should ALL be making to be STABLE. So, no, 75k is not outrageous wealth.
This line is so memorable for a reason.
It's a perfect use of "antimetabole" - the repetition of a phrase with its word order reversed.
Here are 8 more memorable rhetorical devices:
Art is a powerful tool to communicate science. My work focuses on ecosystem and landscape-scale processes which I’ve tried to portray in this table of the Yahara chain of lakes. Every 1/8” of wood depth represents 5’ of water, and lakes are colored based on satellite imagery…🧵
i’ve been forced to watch some football recently and i really think they should consider editing the matches to have confessionals from the players like in reality tv shows. would be way more interesting
When people tell me that they want to get back into reading but can’t seem to find THAT BOOK, I have some go-to recs based on what made them love reading in the first place
— here are 56 of them 🧵