You there, poor person! Have you been agonizing over choices like how many meals you're going to eat today or whether walking in the bitter cold is a better financial option than taking the subway? Well, here's an opportunity to count your blessings, because I'm here to tell you who really has nothing in this cold, unforgiving world: a couple living in New York City who makes $500,000 per year.

Think about it: Once you get all this money, you have to spend it. And then when you spend it, whoa: you've got none left. You might think that you're barely scraping by making minimum wage (or, apparently, a low five figure salary), but consider this: you've barely got any money to spend, which is a pretty easy life. Just look at this handy chart from Financial Samurai (who is a samurai in the way that the Beverly Hills Ninja was. I think):

Here’s why a couple earning $500k a year in New York City ends up with nothing besides 401(k) $$https://t.co/8OMOZU8ZSz @pointsnfigures pic.twitter.com/lnXXkClaRm — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 24, 2017

Now, some might say that highlighting the struggle of a couple with two luxury cars, a $1.5 million home in New York City, a healthy family, buckets of retirement money and food (you need food to live) and triple vacations is a little tone deaf in an era where people are making movies about bosses forcing employees to kill each other. But again, you're missing something important. Take it away, Tiger Shulman's Karate for Finances:

If you’re making $500,000 a year in household income as a worker bee, you’re probably going through a lot of stress due to the amount of hours you are working plus the amount of taxes you are paying. Society won’t acknowledge the sacrifices you made, the time and money you spent, and the risks you took to get to your position today.

Guys, please put down the axes and shovels and bats and implements of destruction and just hear me out. You might be saying "My landlord is harassing me out of my rent-stabilized apartment" or "Last time I sprung for a taxi I could only take it halfway to where I live because it was all I could afford" or simply "I'm hungry right now." But think of the sacrifices this couple is making, like teaching their terrible children Mandarin or giving enough money to their alma matter in order to guarantee that their spoiled idiot child will get into school.

It's all kind of a corollary to Worthington's Law, which, for the unfamiliar, simply explains that "More Money = Better Than." Once you have more money than someone else, however, you realize no one will know just how much better you are if you don't spend it on multiple vacations per year or extravagant date nights every two weeks. If you don't outspend your neighbor to the point of your own oblivion, people will think you're worse than Einstein or even Mahatma Gandhi, who made very little money in his life.

So you know, just have a little damn sympathy for the more well-off among us. They sacrifice so much, and get so little aside from $500,000 a year in return.