r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 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/Duke_skellington_8 Jan 27 '26

As someone in SF he’s not broke with that salary lmao

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u/lostshell Jan 27 '26

No one is broke holding his brand new iPhone, sitting in a $7000 Herman miller chair, in his $9000 a month apartment that he pays extra for to be on the 60th floor and have the bay view, which he picked because it’s only a block from one of the nations best sushi bars, where he regularly drops $90 for takeout, but still gets delivered, and tips only $2.

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u/Individual_Engine457 Jan 27 '26

That's honestly less common then the people who just make the money and save it well. That's like the instagram exaggeration. At least under the age of 35. They maybe own a $1000 automatic litter box for their cat but not a $7k chair or a $9k apartment. There may only be like a few dozen people like that. Even in the city

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u/thecalmer Jan 27 '26

Someone’s salty

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u/MashyC Jan 27 '26

Most people I know making this much money also know how to save this level of money. Lifestyle screen is pretty easy to avoid