Yes you did. But you’re some socialist dumb as bricks loser. So go enjoy being poor. I hope the cost of living in San Diego soon eclipses your undoubtedly insignificant income

Eh go fuck yourself

Your initial point that I responded to was pretty dumb. You said it’s a crime against human rights that some properties in San Diego have been bought for well over asking. I responded by saying no human has a right to live in a very desirable area - they have to compete for it monetarily. There are many other affordable areas in the country to live in

Capitalism is the best thing to have happened to humanity. Not everyone is created equal. Some of us are more talented and get more rewards. Want more stuff? Go improve your skills and usefulness and then earn it. Progress is more important than equality

Yeah tech/most engineering fields seem to be a good example to have at minimum a nice middle class life in America. I think for the average software engineer the recovery from the pandemic has been incredible (which is sad when compared to what the average person is dealing with). Salaries are through the roof, benefits are incredible, stock portfolios are doing well, they can work remotely and pretty much live anywhere in the country now

Either way, thankfully capitalism is here to stay

Agreed in the sense that it’s not these people that are upending housing markets per se, but this does seem to be the general financial situation of such engineers. Quite a few Bay Area friends who work at FAANG companies have been able to purchase property in locations like San Diego, Hawaii, etc during the pandemic

No human has a right to live at the beach, they need to contribute to society and earn it. I’m against freeloaders and people like you saying dumb things. You’re the kind of person who looks at a cutting edge cancer drug and goes “reeee it’s so expensive” instead of thinking “man what a miracle this exists. Thank god for the wonder of capitalism to have incentivized smart people to make this” The coast of California is some of the most coveted real estate in the world. Many people in this country and prospering, having made smart financial decisions and can afford to live here

No one deserves anything you have to go out and earn it. You can go live elsewhere in the country that’s cheaper. Otherwise work smarter, earn more money and then afford to live at the beach

I’m saying I support equality of opportunity not outcome

Equality of opportunity, not outcome.

Yeah that’s an interesting analysis, seems like white collar office job workers have largely done very well and lower income workers have done fairly poorly

You’re the one who brought up rights. You just need to earn enough to live here or buy a home, plenty of people do. If the problem is that more can’t, then we need to increase the opportunities they have access to in order for them to earn a better living, not equalize outcomes. From a human rights perspective, this can also read that plenty of Americans made smart decisions and can reap the rewards and live in sunny San Diego. No one is forcing anyone to live here

There are plenty of other places you can move to - no one has a right to live at the beach or in coastal Southern California

I don’t think this will be the case for the more senior, higher paying jobs

What’s wrong with that? They tech nerds seemed to have made smarter decisions than yourself

Agreed!

Very sorry to hear about this, what happened to your dog? About 2 months ago our dog flipped her stomach and we had to rush to the Veterinary Speciality Hospital in store to valley in the middle of the night, I called most of the VCAs and they’re all full. Our dog made it (after a $10,000 GDV surgery…) but it was incredibly stressful. I think more people have been getting dogs over the pandemic and being in veterinary care takes a huge emotional toll on the staff, not to mention that many of them are deep in debt - so perhaps staffing is low

I went this way - I used to work for San Diego based biotech companies for years but switched to SF based remote roles and multiplied my salary threefold

In a crazy way it is cheap, for a 20 year old out of undergrad you can except to earn around $130,000 as a starting tech (engineering) salary. The senior engineers (arguably the ones with fewer remote restrictions) can be pulling upwards of $500,000 / year these days at top SF tech companies

This kind of sadly alludes to that we have two parallel universes in this country - one in which people are doing exceptionally well and one in which people are barely treading to stay above water, enslaved by sub-40 hour minimum wage work weeks with unpredictable schedules, and rental apartments that they can’t qualify for

And yet companies absolutely act like headless chickens when they wonder why they struggle at retention. Thankfully, the market seems to be very solidly in favor of employees, particularly experienced engineers.

I’ve got an extra unused inhaler, happy to give it to you. DM me

Sent you a DM but stupidly made a typo in my phone number

I think it’s more that it seems that people are wanting equality of outcome rather than opportunity and that there is a general resentment towards people who have worked hard to build their wealth or towards capitalism in general.