> It's hard to dredge up deep, deep wells of sympathy This, by the way, is why ordinary Americans are suffering while the billionaires are winning and laughing

> It's hard to dredge up deep, deep wells of sympathy This, by the way, is why ordinary Americans are suffering while the billionaires are winning and laughing at us. They have us fighting with each other for scraps. $120k/yr after taxes doesn't go very far at all for a family of four. Kids eat a lot of food! Sure, it goes roughly twice as far as $60k/yr does, and, saved wisely and not spent on yachts, cocaine, and girls, provides a bit more of a financial cushion in case of a calamity like the one we're in, but SVB's CEO made $4.8 million last year, which, budgeted by a regular American, is enough for several lifetimes. A software dev making $120k/yr, he is not. Have however much sympathy you can muster for software developers who, yes, have more than you do, but don't lose sight of the bigger picture.