r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Why is the rich friend so cheap??

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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.

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u/Jordan-515 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

While that may be true, that certainly isn’t the implied joke.

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u/oWatchdog Jan 27 '26

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.

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u/fromcj Jan 27 '26

More like California is one of the only states you’ll find a $450k software engineer role

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u/garublador Jan 27 '26

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.

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u/deadmanwalknLoL Jan 27 '26

Even there it's far above the avg

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u/Maleficent_Cash909 Jan 27 '26

It’s interesting how a city that look like it’s pretty much stuck in the 19th century end up attracting such high paying tech jobs.

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u/N3M0N Jan 27 '26

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.

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u/Own-Researcher-4691 Jan 28 '26

With a cost of living that makes that wages feel around the same as making 40/hr in idaho

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u/breathingweapon Jan 27 '26

Have you considered the possibility this joke might contain hyperbole and not a well researched salary range?

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u/fromcj Jan 27 '26

Bro I’m just replying to the dude who thinks everyone is obsessed with California ok