[GuestFAUniverse]

And what do you buy with your "triple" income?

A boring mansion, with a boring lawn, in a boring, gated community? -- and all that while the other neighbourhoods are on fire. But at least you can buy $700 sneakers and leave the big garage in style, to work your ass off with a job pretending to "better the world" -- maybe have one or two weeks to fill your social media account with pictures already taken by the millions (you might as well use generative AI).

Congrats to your final destination: hell.

[matthewwolfe]

That’s certainly one way to live life, although certainly not the only way. Many people use tech as a path to financial independence. There’s a running joke/groan that the FIRE sub is filled with software engineers making 6 figures.

[Tadpole9181]

Its not even that, America pays so much more for food and rent and healthcare that the triple income just gets you "a VCR salesman from the 80s".