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When people talk about their income they usually talk about gross, which is pre-tax. When someone says "I make $100k a year" they don't typically mean they take home net $100k.

Investments are typically also only taxed when you realize the gains, so if you have $3mm and "earn" $300k, you only pay taxes if you sell some of that. Other interest, like from a high yield savings, is taxed as income.

Health insurance is a nightmare, but there are options in this hellscape for buying it. Many poor people are also just uninsured, so you're not much worse off than them in this scenario.

Did you have any details you wanted to talk about, or did you just want to try to be pithy?

Someone here is doing their homework! Work hard enough and maybe one day you will die tragically but you life insurance will leave your children less poor!

how many porn stars do you know off the top of your head

Yeah, there are two ways to make good money in porn. The first way is to be one of the lucky 0.001% who make it big, and essentially become a household name.

The second is to find a niche, (or even a niche within a niche), and make a name for yourself within that circle. The more taboo ones can be especially lucrative. This will largely depend on your personal kinks and physical traits though, so there’s not a ton of wiggle room in this regard.

There’s a reason so many trans women end up doing porn at some point; There’s a surprisingly big demand for it, and not many trans women to do it. So those who do usually end up making some decent money. Especially if they can find a niche within that niche. Basically, a trans woman may make good money, but a trans woman willing to do weird stuff will likely make even more. It’s also why furries are willing to pay so much for yiff art. Many artists aren’t willing (or practiced enough) to do it, so those who do are able to demand high prices.

I've heard viagra is normalized in that business for exactly that.

porn in the early 2000s*