In the economic downturn, there are fewer posts on the Internet that even love to post "general packages".
But the former "dazzling bag sticker" is returning in the form of "crying poor sticker".
For example, "the annual salary of a double-yard farmer is 1.5 million dollars, and the cost of raising a baby will cost 1.4 million dollars a year"
"With an annual salary of 350,000 dollars, I can't afford to raise a horse at all"
"The total package is more than 400,000 yuan, and you have to hesitate to drink a cup of milk tea"
"32 years old, single, $5 million, I still feel very poor in the Bay Area"
Not only do they cry poor in a certain forum and Xiaohongshu, but they will even translate the crying poor post into English and reddit for the old whites to figure it out for themselves.
If netizens read it, their first reaction is confusion: "The annual salary is so high, how can it not be enough to spend?" ”
Then it happens to be a trick, and they will then tell you bitterly:
Although the 3.5 M of self-housing has been paid off, the land tax is too expensive, and there are still several small black houses in the repayment of loans. Although the salary is high, the 401k is full, the backdoor is full, the stock cannot be sold, and there is not a few money left. Do you know how much it costs for your child to go to a private/school district house/chicken sports? You're not in this circle, you don't know how burdensome life is in the Bay Area, and you're really anxious.
In fact, what these bigwigs really want to say is that they have self-owned housing worth 3.5 million dollars and several investment houses on hand, double the maximum amount of pension savings, stock prices are reaching new highs day by day, and the two children have been in private schools since childhood, and they are working hard to cultivate the next Gu Ailing......
Some netizens explained the origin to everyone, it turns out that this kind of crying poor is just a kind of "fat" with a long history and an obscure form.
figured out the other party's motives, and the correct reply teaching that made them unable to move the field came:
"Well, it's so distressing, no matter how high the annual salary is, after all, I still work for others, it's hard."
"5M is really not much in the Bay Area, I know several people in their early 30s who have 8-10 M, continue to work hard"
"It's been three and a half years of work before L4? Boiling to L5 can go up a little more, harm, it's actually fine, why do you want to roll so much. ”
Are these disguised people the same as the explosive article "A man with an annual salary of three million can't afford Hermes"?
The former editor-in-chief of a domestic fashion magazine posted an article crying poor and came to the conclusion:
The situation of her family is like this, her husband's annual salary is 3 million, but he is reluctant to take a taxi and take the subway when the traffic is restricted. My husband bowed his head and said, "No way, I'm poor, I have to raise a child and support my family!" ”
Hearing that the family was quite diligent and thrifty, she then began to count how the money was spent.
"Just to maintain daily life, more than a thousand a day slipped through the cracks of my fingers." Eating and drinking are all small money, and the big head is still behind:
The family hired two nannies, so "the 188-square-meter house is really crowded",
So I bought a house in Shunyi again, "the down payment cost 10 million",
Now the rent is 30,000 yuan per month, and the mortgage is 60,000 yuan per month.
The confinement center is 200,000, the insurance is more than 100,000 per year, the yoga card is 30,000 a year, and the physical examination is more than 30,000
The bird's nest sea cucumber fish maw that is supplemented every day is several hundred
By the way, her three cats have to take more than 1,000 baths, because an MRI for genetic diseases is 9k, "every 3-6 months to do an MRI".
After listening to it, you will feel that her new style of crying poor is ridiculous and reasonable, such a calculation of 3 million is really stretched, no wonder she has an annual income of 5 million, and she is living tightly.
After seeing the wail that the Bay Area has an annual salary of 350,000 dollars, but can't afford to raise horses, I also went to the comment area to learn how much does it cost to raise horses, and when did the Bay Area code farmers start to raise horses?
As a result, it was a long time ago, this horse is not another horse, people refer to Hermes!
In a screenshot leaked by LV Group last year, those with an annual salary of less than 3 million were all classified as "no-income people", not to mention Hermes, which is famous for its distribution.
With an annual salary of 350,000 US dollars, spending 4,000 dollars a month to raise a horse can still exercise your body, tighten your belt to raise Hermes, and you are still a proletariat who does not own any means of production!
I probably understand why they are crying out about poverty when their income is so high.
With an annual salary of 350,000 yuan but having to live a life with an annual salary of 2 million, it is strange if you are not overstretched. To put it more poignantly, Hermès sees that the customers who meet the standards may be those who do not receive an annual salary......
Is the poverty of the code farmer really poor?
In terms of income, they are already the limit that ordinary families can reach.
But they do have another kind of "they do have money at the moment, but they don't have a sense of security in the future".
Because no one knows whether the industry winter is coming in 10 years, no one knows whether the family income can maintain the current situation after 10 years, and no one knows whether the company's mailbox will suddenly be unable to log in when it wakes up...... Parents can't care about when they are old, children may not be able to inherit their academic qualifications, and middle-aged people's bodies are not as good as day by day.
When you have money, the house has to chase more than 3M, when you have money, your child will send it to a private school from kindergarten, and when you have money, you can quickly buy a few sets of investment housing pension and save it in double, and the leverage is full of top matching, and the remaining money in hand is still thinking about buying Hermes, of course, it is not enough.
A Bay Area coder complained on the Internet that his wife was not motivated, which dragged him back.
He said that his colleague and his wife are both double-yard farmers, and they can easily get 800,000 dollars, and they are very generous to buy a house and raise children. But her wife studied a sinkhole major, and her salary was only one-fifth of her own, and she refused to call her for a few years, thinking that her current work was idle and she could take care of the family and children.
He was very dissatisfied with his wife's "dragging the whole family back", "If she is also a yard farmer, we can earn 800,000 yuan a year and buy a bigger house, but now I am alone, and I will never be able to catch up with other families." ”
He may be really anxious, but after reading it, he feels very helpless, after 800,000 annual salary, there will be a family of 1.5 million, and after 1.5 million, there will be a family that does not have to work and eat capital, how to compare? If the way of thinking of climbing the tower remains the same, you will be trapped in "not being able to suffer" for the rest of your life.
The last time I went to California, I ate at a Chinese restaurant, and the next table was a group of Chinese men, middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, and they were still in the Olympiad results of PK High School in Rushi.
A man who casually carries a scholarly face on the streets of Massachusetts and California is most likely the top N in science and the gold medalist of the Olympiad in a certain county or city. They are not ordinary scholars, but the final paper kings who have been scooped up in countless exams and competitions since childhood.
They are masters of climbing towers, and with every step they take to the top of the tower, they will see with their own eyes how those behind them who have not climbed up fall into the abyss, and they have also seen with their own eyes how the difference of one point can make fate trample on them...... After layers of brutal screening, the winners finally sat down at a table in the Bay Area.
In the educational atmosphere we grew up, the motivation to move forward (the vast majority of people) was driven by fear, and happiness was compared to others as the coordinate system. Every time you climb to a platform, you can't breathe, because when you look up, there will always be someone who is more curly and richer than you.
In the first half of their lives, they were successful and envious in comparison with others, so even if they came to the best company and got the highest salary, they would still habitually look at the higher spire.
Some people say that code farmers have a kind of Schrödinger's poverty - they can cry poor themselves, but if others say they are poor, they will immediately post their big packages to scare you to death.
In the course of life that repeatedly jumps between inferiority and conceit, the happiness that comes from "me" is getting farther and farther away.