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We live in a world where a lot of people are still living on $2 a day or less. And you consider $10k/year on soccer and music lessons a necessary living expense? Gimmie a break.

I'm friends with a married couple who's got one kid, planning on having more. Husband works in tech, wife doesn't work. Their finances end up looking a lot like mine, except they l…

As someone who recently quit a six-figure tech job in SF... 100k/year does not "barely" cover cost of living. When I first got the job, I decided I wanted to live close to where I …

"This is how success is distributed in almost any profession." No—only in professions where the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is low.

I find this completely unsurprising. Maybe because I'm someone who used to (kinda sorta) make a living as a writer? Writing software is more profitable than writing prose (or poetr…