[Terretta]

> imagine if this article was about the "poor Google employee living in a van and cannot afford rent", you'd laugh at its face.

You don't have to imagine it, you can read that article:

"23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot and saves 90% of his income."

-- https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...

[seanmcdirmid]

He can afford rent, he just chooses not to pay rent and save that money. The same for many stealth campers who are working remote tech jobs while living in $60-80k conversion vans parked on the street.

[franciscop]

Oh yeah, I mean that in the Googler in a van, everyone here knows that Google pays a lot so he IS choosing to live in a van to save 90% and he could def pay for a house to stay at.

My point is that most people here don't know the level at which jobs pay in Ibiza in summer, so I brought that up as a familiar comparison (people there work 3 months and live off that the rest of the year).