Was based in the UK, came to the US for high salaries. I know I'm underpaid by blind standards but my salary literally doubled, doing exactly the same job (internal transfer), and was surprised to see so many complain about their salary, even consideting HCOL. Most Americans only dream about this type of salary. TC: 300k, yeo 17 yr. Household combined income 750k and very grateful https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/15q8j36/is_everyone_really_making_115k_a_year/jw2o8hp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
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Is the living cost the same?
Probably 🤔
I have observed from my years of working - that European counterparts are much lazier in their work. They don’t work anywhere near as efficiently and effectively as Americans do. So it makes sense that we get paid more. Israel is an exception. I think those people are very intelligent and put in work as much as we do. But that’s just my opinion. 🤷🏾♂️
Israel is # 1
I imigated from EU and yes - people here work hard, but it's for all the wrong reason. Most are up to their eye balls in debt. I've seen people get very concerned, when told "company will not allow any overtime for this quater". Just saying.
Had me going until we got to loan numbers…350k loan with 15k down?? Definitely not HCOL. The hopelessness continues.
Yeah I wonder if this guy did loans in a certain geographic area or something and that is coloring his thoughts a lot
Lol. Private doctors in the UK charge 300 GBP just for 5 min phone/in-person consultation.
Is that a royal doctor? Last time I was looking for a private GP consultation in London, I was quoted £80
💯. It's supply and demand. That is why tech salaries have dropped slightly. There are more applicants than jobs in this economy.
Overpaid and yet burned out, can't live comfortably where our jobs are, one job loss away from homelessness. OP is poof
Acknowledging what exists out there and striving for it isn't the same as complaining. Yes we have high tc compared to rest of society. That much is obvious. Many of us also live in hcol areas where 100k is equivalent to 50k in l/mcol areas. People have the same reaction when female movie stars complain that they got paid 5mil while their male counterpart got paid 20mil. Yeah I can only dream of making 5mil for about 8 months of work.
Nobody just "realizes" what's out there. It's information you have to be given access to in one way or another. I'm a first generation college graduate. My entire life would have been significantly easier if someone had just told me a handful of things I had to figure out the hard way. A lot of them seem obvious in retrospect, but it's not obvious when it's outside your scope of exposure.
He’s probably selling houses in Arizona or Texas cause CA don’t have houses that cheap in places people would wanna live lol
Lol not anywhere near a main city in TX anymore. The house I bought last September is 700K in the outskirts of Dallas
There’s no such thing as overpaid or underpaid. It’s a free market. This is a lucrative niche, and not one that is boosted by artificial barriers to entry either (onerous licensing and artificial limits to employment like we see in other niches like medicine, dentistry, even stylists). Of course nothing is guaranteed to last forever. I’m just here stacking savings until the AI take my job, lol
There is one huge artificial barrier to entry: immigration restrictions. The current system can be reformed but people generally agree that open borders is not the way to go. If we relaxed this barrier, we'd see millions more move to the US per year. Some (large, I think) percentage of software engineers worldwide would move to the US for higher wages, but end up driving down wages.
ahh fair point I am definitely pro increasing skilled immigration, even if it decreases my personal wages lol
2ldr
Summary - You don’t get to six figures on your own. Get a girlfriend or boyfriend (apparently). Additional notes - - Taxation is theft. - Debt clings like shit. Both make your life worse. You work for $250,000 and end up with $90,000 after all that work. - Yet people and corporations get welfare. It’s wrong. This system needs to be reversed. - Eliminate all forms of welfare and support(corporate and personal) to stop subsidized living. Force people to deal with their decisions and make the right ones. - Cut taxes by 80% for every one except the rich. They can handle current rates. - State budgets need to be clamped - Taxes should only be used for Education, Defense, Infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) and Healthcare (Clean Water, Air, Sanitation). Everything else is a waste of time. Green or Black in your bank account makes you happy. Let your representatives know that.
Home Depot Do you live in a bubble? Entirely eliminating social safety nets is batshit insane. Do you just like...not account for the multitude of other factors that affect one's ability to generate an income or do you just not care? Libertarians are so weird. You guys get like half way to recognizing the problems inherent in today's world and then just come to a screeching halt the second you have to account for anyone else but yourself. Were all libertarians just bullied nerds or were you all just self centered assholes all along?