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gruezyesterday at 2:52 PM4 repliesview on HN

>Tech looks high compared to everyone else, but it is more that everyone else's wages got suppressed.

Where do you draw the line? Maybe everyone should be earning $10M/year like AI researchers, and anything to the contrary means it's "suppressed"?


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__turbobrew__yesterday at 6:13 PM

> Where do you draw the line

You can own a house and support a family of 5 on a single income and retire at 65.

Where I live that is only really possible for SWE, lawyers, doctors, and execs.

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Chinjutyesterday at 3:02 PM

Fine by me. Let's give it a shot.

sublinearyesterday at 3:59 PM

I'm pretty sure they meant ~100k-200k in a housing market away from the coasts... oh wait that's already true!

tikhonjyesterday at 5:39 PM

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