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Comment by WilliamSt | Hacker News Reader

Sometimes when I go to hacker news, I feel really poor.

Nah, get on to Blind. That will make you feel poor.

People on blind are either straight up lying or having a very extreme case of selection bias.

Blind worries me a lot. Because if the general claims made on the website are true, then the people in top companies making $300k+ annually are some of the most immature and toxic people on the face of the earth.

It happens on this site too... if you believe HN everyone in the UK is making £100k+, even though the average salary here is more like 40k. I’ve seen people complain because they’re ‘only’ making as much per month as most people in the country make annually.

You can walk onto any city street and see the occasional person people driving nice cars too. Does that make you feel poor too?

I don't see these other people as fellow developers, but as golf-playing executives or their children. I'm aware that not everyone here is a dev, but we mostly have similar careers.

I live on about 30% of my salary. Unless you're in the bay area or have a family to support, that's plausible (and honestly pretty comfortable) for most developers. If you wanted that car, you could have it.

Not everyone here lives in the US. Making SV salaries here, where 99+% of people are making under $80k/year, would be obscene. If I had access to that kind of money, I'd be putting it into better housing (penthouse?) long before ever thinking of buying a car like that.

An I-Pace is only $60-70k. Assume you have 20k positive equity in your current vehicle the loan cost is about $800/mo. The equivalent would be buying a new Subaru Outback or F150 and paying for gas and oil changes.

"Assume you have 20k positive equity in your current vehicle" Yeah, that's definitely an assumption.

>An I-Pace is only $60-70k

Please take a step back and think about the average human being for a moment

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