How can you make $400,000 dollars a year and still feel like you're just getting by?

Please put down your drink, you won't want to cover your computer/device's screen with coffee or juice or water. But if you do ruin your electronic device, no one understands your pain more than the Wall Street Journal Yes, how? How can that happen? Why is that happening? Where are we? Am I taking crazy pills? Let's forget that the median middle-class household income peaked at $56,080 in 1999 and it stands at roughly $50,017 now. Welcome to examples of the shrinking middle class, Wall Street Journal. Give us a financial breakdown that we can all relate to, please. Let's begin with our Core Expenses, below the fold.