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0 pointsmattmanser10y ago0 comments

Oh come on with the hyperbole, if you didn't spend so much money on a nice area and expensive stuff you could afford it easily.

I don't get people who are so smart and yet simultaneously so stupid that they think spending $100,000 a year is normal.

Wake up, you're rich, you're just too stupid to realize you could be living at a much cheaper level.

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Arjuna10y ago

Based on when you joined HN, I think it is safe to conclude that you have been here long enough to know the high signal-to-noise ratio that the community strives for here. I think that there are more eloquent and meaningful ways to express your opinion and disagree [1][2].

Just a friendly reminder:

1. There is another human being on the other side of the conversation.

2. Practice compassion when responding.

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[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham's_Hierarchy_o...

gedy10y ago

Hey, you know that the vast majority of businesses are not very friendly to remote work, and moving away from these areas frequently means a pay cut or sometimes inability to find work?

I'm not defending this at all, as I think it's stupid, but they are not "rich". They are frankly just less screwed than other middle class folks.

mattmanserOP10y ago

The median household income in the US is $51,939 (2013).

You seriously think having double or probably triple from just one salary isn't rich?

And where exactly are all your caterers and cleaners and gardeners and nannies and baristas and tavern workers and shop people living and buying their food with their minimum wage in the bay area? Obviously they aren't remote working.

Perspective is a bitch.

bduerst10y ago

SF has the highest CPI and rent index in the entire U.S., so comparing it with median salary of the U.S. is non-sequitur.

...Especially when talking about perspective.

yarou10y ago

>You seriously think having double or probably triple from just one salary isn't rich?

First of all, cost of living varies widely from locality to locality. Making 90k a year in middle of nowhere Idaho or some other piece of flyover country is totally different than making 150k in an urban area like NYC or SF.

Saying: "welp, it's your fault your cost of living is so high, you should move 2 hours away to Sacramento, stupid" is not only incredibly naive, but borders on a level of ignorance that I haven't seen in quite some time.

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