It wowed me because I have earned over 70k a year in my life and also have only earned 26k a year. I studied economics at university. I know what I am talking about. You must not ever have been poor. That is a good thing.

Here on hackernews 70k a year is almost working class. But I know families of 6 that live on 35k a year. So to read over 70k is not a lot of money to someone stuns me.