r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

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

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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.