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Re:Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’ by kirktrue on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:24PM (#22782330)
Just to make sure I am understanding you, are you stating that the top 30% of employees have 3-5 years of savings socked away that they can get to easily?

If that’s true, well, I guess I am not in the top 30% of employees of big tech firms.

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Re:Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’ by temp20160423 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:09PM (#22782906)
It also depends on if you include retirement accounts. It seems nuts to have 3-5 years of savings as cash in taxable accounts. But this is easily doable if you include retirement accounts, which you would start withdrawing from if things were really bad and the choice is to lose your house or withdraw early from 401K/IRA.
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Re:Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’ by AdrianB1 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:42PM (#22782437)
Statistics based on a sample size of one are not a good example.
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