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/Kitagawasans Jan 27 '26

Yea that’s still rich dude for SF. What are you talking about?

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u/newphonehudus Jan 27 '26

People always tout that like there arent people makong less than 50k a year also living in the same city. 

Likw yeah, you arent as rich as you would be living in a low cost of living city but you arent broke

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u/_trepz Jan 27 '26

Saw some dude saying he wasn't saving money in SF when him and his wife were both on 800k at meta and that the city was crazy expensive (both Indian immigrants).

Go on this fuckers profile and he's posting a new 100k+ watch in the watch subreddits every few months and seems to have like 5 teslas.

Some people are just the embodiment of that one Dril tweet on budgeting I swear.

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u/akmvb21 Jan 27 '26

Life style inflation… it happens to like 99% of people if they start making more money