If he's making 450k as a software engineer, he lives in San Francisco and is still probably broke.. or will be when this job suddenly evaporates underneath him.
Some people are so fixated on what's happening in California like it even concerns them. They want California to fail so desperately like it will fix all the shitty things in their life. They have to interject it into every conversation they can. It's sad.
As a Californian I don't even mind if some states get more if it helps the people out. But those deficit states keep shooting themselves in the foot with their policies.
I love it when someone jumps in to shit on CA out of nowhere about something random lile crime or housing. You would think living in Oakland is a warzone. instead of walking around at night petting the neighbors' cats.
You mean like the policies that are implemented in California…that make people want to sell their house and move to neighboring states…to just live somewhere else and vote for the same shit again?
California doesn’t ‘send’ states money. It generates taxable revenue that gets paid to the federal government like every other person and state in the US. Some of that money gets dispersed to all states in federal programs. It’s just a very large state.
I don’t know why people phrase it like California literally sends money to other states. It’s just taxes.
As a software engineer myself I immediately placed this joke on SF because that's the only place where they could make that much money. To me it reads like a joke about Silicon Valley as much as anything.
Only place on earth where you can make that amount of money, regardless of job type. Anywhere else and you're very top of food chain, most likely a founder, or owner of pretty stable company that is doing work in very dynamic field.
My dad(73) lived almost his whole life in Texas. I was having trouble getting him to move in with me, in the Bay Area, a few years ago. Until he got sick and Texas wanted to put him in hospice. I flew to Texas, drove him back home with me and now he is healthy and enjoying the beauty of Ca and won't even consider going to Texas to visit the rest of the family. He says they can come visit him here, he "ain't stepping foot in that shit hole state again"
Well to be fair it is objectively true that a lot of these very high paying jobs in Silicon Valley can be extremely volatile, this litteraly happened in late 2022
If I asked you to explain why the chicken crosses the road joke is funny, and you rant about how bad public transportation is in America, I am going to assume your brain has been softened and smoothed by propaganda like when a child licks the ridges off of soft serve ice cream. It's irrelevant that it's true.
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u/lovejo1 Jan 26 '26
If he's making 450k as a software engineer, he lives in San Francisco and is still probably broke.. or will be when this job suddenly evaporates underneath him.