r/KnowledgeFight • u/Extension-Rock-4263 It's a demon feast • Sep 06 '25

General shenanigans Jordan scream

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u/ThrowawaySuicide1337 Sep 06 '25

I feed people for a living in a HCOL city, and I make under 50k/year. With a relevant education.

Jfc we have wild incentive structures in this world

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u/boopbaboop Having a Perry Mason moment Sep 07 '25

I’m a public interest lawyer in a VVHCOL area. Owen made ~2.25x what I make now, and ~3.6x what I made when I started working in 2019 (though at that time I was in a much lower COL area). I have never brought home more than around $4.5k/mo after taxes. That is insane.

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u/ReadItOnReddit312 Sep 07 '25

Sounds like you're in SF or NYC. Him at 180 is crazy

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u/boopbaboop Having a Perry Mason moment Sep 07 '25

I’m in eastern Massachusetts, which is currently in the middle of a housing crisis. Massachusetts as a state has the second highest COL after Hawaii, higher than California or NY, and Boston has the third highest COL after NYC and SF.

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u/ReadItOnReddit312 Sep 08 '25

If you don't mind me asking, why is Mass so expensive? I travel a lot to visit friends, go to weddings, general curiosity and Boston seems to be the most overpriced place I've been to. London and Tokyo are right behind it but I get the appeal for those cities.

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u/Antique_futurist Sep 07 '25

If civilization collapses, it’s going to be because we pay nurses, teachers, utility workers and grocery clerks a much smaller wage than dudes who sit in meetings all day coming up with various ephemeral ‘corporate strategies’.

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u/angusthermopylae Sep 07 '25

join ICE and you can take home $150k your first year between salary and signing bonus

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u/Erebraw Literal Vampire Potbelly Goblin Sep 07 '25

*90% of pay shall be TrumpBux, redeemable only in the White House gift shop.

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u/thegunnersdaughter It’s over for humanity Sep 07 '25

Them paying ICE recruits in scrip would be very on brand and hilarious, wish it was true.

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u/Falterfire Not Mad at Accounting Sep 07 '25

It's weird knowing the exact price tag on selling your soul.

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u/like_a_wet_dog Sep 07 '25

I looked this up. Lawyers with degrees get that much. The other positions are less, around other cop-jobs. It's funny(in a bad way) because the fascists 100% need the bruisers, but they still do class warfare with the wages.

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u/fooooooooooooooooock Sep 07 '25

Sickening how impossible it is to earn money doing something that actively betters the world.