[avgDev]

This. HN skews towards professionals and people with decent negotiating power.

Many people scrape paycheck to paycheck all their life. First, it is kids and housing, then as they age health. Plus, once you are 50 and all you did was factory work or gig work....your negotiating position is "I will do anything to get to the retirement".

[sneak]

It is a mistake to conflate the truth of my statements with the circumstances of the speaker.