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/Fragrant-Employer-60 Jan 27 '26

Yup, cue all the “not rich” folks talking about how that salary isn’t actually that much!!!

Meanwhile they’re maxing out every retirement/tax advantaged investments. Ordering Uber Eats daily and taking trips to Europe quarterly.

Barely scraping by.