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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by unclebucknasty on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:47AM (#16384922)
I think GP meant that subsisting as a poor person is impossible (or nearly so), due to astronomic rents.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by 131012 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:30AM (#16385284)
The comment is interesting, because it proposes that an engineer with a 100k salary is now taught as somewhat poor. Hence the impossibility of being working class poor. I'm from a G7 country and still, 100k a year is understood here as being rich. Call it the Silicon Valley distortion maybe?
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by sjg007 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:58AM (#16385558)
A family of 4 living in San Mateo county making $105k is considered low income by HUD.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by RickJWagner on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:30PM (#16386320)
Wow.
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