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I'll get downvoted to hell for saying this, but $15/hr is upper middle class pay here. I made less than that for much of my software development career...

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• orhmeh09 7y ago
  Your post would be considerably more useful with date and location information.
• Tade0 7y ago
  So did I, but where I come from $1k/month of take-home-pay is enough to rent a two bedroom apartment and live comfortably. The US is, all things considered, expensive.
• thundergolfer 7y ago
  You’ll be getting downvoted because what you make “here” and it being upper-middle class pay is not relevant at all to these workers, unless you want to make a disingenuous suggestion that they move countries to “here”.
  • f00zz 7y ago
    Of course I understand that. I just find it very hard to sympathize with the plight of someone making $15/hour. It seems high, even taking differences in cost of living into account.
    • thundergolfer 7y ago
      > It seems high Senior FAANG engineers make ~$200/hr. How does $15 seem at all high?