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If you're living paycheck to paycheck on "high compensation", then what f'ing good is it anyway? I'm out here in south central Wisconsin making a poverty wage b

If you're living paycheck to paycheck on "high compensation", then what f'ing good is it anyway? I'm out here in south central Wisconsin making a poverty wage by the standard of SV-types and I own my own home with a couple retirement accounts, some investments, and significant savings. I don't even have a fancy bachelor's degree, just 3 associates.

bradlys 4y ago
Because most people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere. Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  > Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. Right, so, entitled. Sorry if I don't cry over their entirely self-induced money troubles. > SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs. And as arrogant as everyone outside of SV thinks they are, apparently.
  - bradlys 4y ago
- bombcar 4y ago
  > Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. The key to diversity is make carefully sure it happens to someone else somewhere else.
  - bradlys 4y ago
    Having come from a poor rural background - I have no intention of going back. The brain rot that exists in those communities is beyond toxic. At least there's a chance in cities of interacting with someone reasonable. I have no intention of putting my kids through the hell that is the extremely xenophobic racism that exists in rural areas either. But - no - I'm just intolerant because I won't tolerate intolerance.

bradlys 4y ago

Because most people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere. Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. Right, so, entitled. Sorry if I don't cry over their entirely self-induced money troubles. > SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs. And as arrogant as everyone outside of SV thinks they are, apparently.
- bradlys 4y ago
bombcar 4y ago
> Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar. The key to diversity is make carefully sure it happens to someone else somewhere else.
- bradlys 4y ago
  Having come from a poor rural background - I have no intention of going back. The brain rot that exists in those communities is beyond toxic. At least there's a chance in cities of interacting with someone reasonable. I have no intention of putting my kids through the hell that is the extremely xenophobic racism that exists in rural areas either. But - no - I'm just intolerant because I won't tolerate intolerance.