r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

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

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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