There’s a difference between making $100k/year and not feeling rich, and making $100k/year and feeling poor that’s more than difference between the thread title and the article title. While I understand that the writer feels like things should be different with at $100k, I think she needs a paradigm shift.
Their only debt is a mortgage and a car loan for a child. They bought their son a car, and they are able to cash flow both of their children through college. That’s not poor. It may not be tropical vacations and umbrella drinks, but it’s still doing quite nicely.