I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen. Seaweed snacks were always empty. Nobody had those telltale…

Not sure if this is the best comm for this post, but it really hit home with me, and is getting some good discussion in my circles.

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If she's making 80k and married (maybe single-income family?) while balancing student loans it is absolutely possible to be legitimately poor in the Bay Area. Not dirt poor, not housing-insecure poor, but basically living paycheck-to-paycheck poor.