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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by impossiblefork on Saturday May 31, 2025 @03:00AM (#44142438)
It actually is basically minimum wage for major metros.

If I took a job for ~100k in Washington, I'd live worse than I did as a PhD student in Sweden. It would basically suck. I'm not sure ~120k would make things that different.

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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by nyarlathotep_ on Saturday May 31, 2025 @05:49PM (#44147151)
Yep exactly. I mean "maintaining a basic material standard of living that even non 'high-earners' had twenty years ago"

The erosion of the standard of living in the US (and the West more broadly) is not something to be ignored in any discussion of wages.

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