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Flawed premise. The lack of a sane social safety net and of a 1st world healthcare system affects everyone in the US. Yes, being well paid in tech helps allevi
by abritinthebay 8y ago
Flawed premise. The lack of a sane social safety net and of a 1st world healthcare system affects everyone in the US.
Yes, being well paid in tech helps alleviate some of the issues due to them being absorbed by money, essentially, but that is itself an effect on the spending power & mobility of the individual.
The US has effectively mortgaged and remortgaged is population and has not been keeping up on maintaining it. That bill will come due.
- gota 8y agoBeing well payed is supposed to alleviate these issues to the point where it wouldn't normally justify moving _because of those issues_. You can move because a certain aspect is more appealing to you, as is the case with vacation days for another commenter, for example, but that makes it more a particular case rather than a general trend.
- r00fus 8y agoBut being well payed means the prices go up for everything consummately for the area you live in. So any gains in living improvements are offset.