Musk Critics Including Laura Loomer Claim Censorship on X, Loss of X Badges

[u/Doctor_Byronic]

https://www.cf.org/news/musk-critics-including-laura-loomer-claim-censorship-on-x-loss-of-x-badges/

[u/Running_Gamer]

Lmao I also just looked at your twitter link and it’s delusional. It calls those jobs “low paying” when the cheapest salary is 73k… you good? Thats low paying? You’re out of your mind.

[u/DownrightCaterpillar → u/Running_Gamer]

It calls those jobs “low paying” when the cheapest salary is 73k… you good? Thats low paying? You’re out of your mind.

You have to account for cost of living. There are 2 positions listed for Fremont, CA and they both pay $85k. That's great, except it's in Fremont. 1-bedroom apartments cost at least $1.9k-3.3k/month there. And since you're claiming these are great salaries, surely the lofty "Associate Analyst" will spring for a nice apartment, maybe $2.6/month or more. So that's $31k per year not including utilities. That is exorbitant and about half of their take-home salary after income tax.

[u/Running_Gamer → u/DownrightCaterpillar]

“MUH COST OF LIVING” is the greatest lie ever told to Americans who want to claim that they are perpetually poor and therefore virtuous. It allows you to claim the virtue of someone who is struggling to get by while you get to reap the rewards of actually being well off. Nobody in America is struggling to get by on a salary of over $70k. My first position was 50k a few years ago in NYC and me and my friends were just fine. You live with roommates and be smart about your spending. Having a budget is normal responsible spending, not poverty. After a year I was promoted as one of the top performers and bumped to an 80k salary. I’m a straight white man. Anyone who argues against HB1 visas is someone who thinks “MAGA” means “DEI for white people.” No. It means you earn your spot in this country. If you get beat out by someone who grew up in the third world, that’s an indictment of you and your mediocrity, not them. America’s potential shouldn’t have to suffer because you’re not willing to step up and do the job.

[u/DownrightCaterpillar → u/Running_Gamer]

1. Resorting to anecdotes again. Very emotional.
2. Calling a salary calculator and an apartment listing site "the greatest lie ever told to Americans." Can I even call this emotional? It's just ignoring reality.

[u/Running_Gamer → u/DownrightCaterpillar]

“Salary calculator 🤓☝️” if 70k is poverty level, can you claim social welfare benefits on a 70k salary?

[u/DownrightCaterpillar → u/Running_Gamer]

It's not poverty level. But it's also not "high level." If I take Dave Ramsey rule of 25% (he is also a proponent of budgets, he's just like you!) of take-home pay, then this is wildly over budget.

You should spend no more than 25% of your monthly take-home pay on rent. Spending 30% or more will mean not having enough room left over in your budget to put toward other important financial goals like saving for a down payment on a home.

Even if we take the low rate of 1.9k per month (not including utilities) on a 1-bedroom apartment, it's still 36% of your monthly take-home pay. Way over budget. Also, just an aside, it's funny to me that you think some industrious guy fresh off a H1-B visa somehow has multiple friends with whom he can split bills in Fremont, CA or any of the other cities listed.

[u/Running_Gamer → u/DownrightCaterpillar]

Using hyper-safe guidelines from a financial guru who is specifically catered towards those with dogshit spending habits is, by definition, not financial advice for the majority of Americans. His advice is not catered towards the majority. The people who need him get into massive credit card debt and are financially illiterate in the worst possible sense.

36% of your salary on rent is completely reasonable for someone just starting out. Salaries rise fast in tech, and someone will quickly be over six figures within a few years. Nobody in tech has ten years of experience and makes under six figures unless they actively choose to or are just incompetent. Calculating costs of living for the poorest someone will ever be in their career and acting like it’s their forever life is missing the point.

[u/DownrightCaterpillar → u/Running_Gamer]

Using hyper-safe guidelines from a financial guru who is specifically catered towards those with dogshit spending habits is, by definition, not financial advice for the majority of Americans. His advice is not catered towards the majority. The people who need him get into massive credit card debt and are financially illiterate in the worst possible sense. 

This is an ad hominem and has nothing to do with whether what he's saying is true, normal, or right.

Salaries rise fast in tech, and someone will quickly be over six figures within a few years.

The tech industry is going through major layoffs, how can you predict the future???

Nobody in tech has ten years of experience and makes under six figures unless they actively choose to or are just incompetent.

So you admit all of the positions listed in that Twitter post are early-career positions and not "high level positions?" I'll quote what you said earlier:

You’re also acting like the HB1 immigrants somehow don’t already speak English. How the hell are you working at an American company at a high level and not know English? It doesn’t exist.