Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
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#3There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane.
People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
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#4There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane. People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
> Layoffs have been limited to tech
And in all honesty, good. Tech Bros (myself included) needed to be cut to size. There was a lot of hubris by my peers in the 2010s.
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#6There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane. People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
> Layoffs have been limited to tech And in all honesty, good. Tech Bros (myself included) needed to be cut to size. There was a lot of hubris by my peers in the 2010s.
. Tech Bros are infact rarely let go first because of their chummy relationship with managmemnt.
I know a lot of my colleagues on Visas and families here were laidoff and ppl on visas live with this constant layoff anxiety.
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#7There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane. People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
> Layoffs have been limited to tech And in all honesty, good. Tech Bros (myself included) needed to be cut to size. There was a lot of hubris by my peers in the 2010s.
I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle. Very few people I know get paid enough to buy a starter home within 2 or 3 hours of where they work. I get paid more than my non tech peers yet still functionally have less spending power than a 25 year old from 30 years ago, despite being a fair bit older than 25
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Layoffs have been limited to tech And in all honesty, good. Tech Bros (myself included) needed to be cut to size. There was a lot of hubris by my peers in the 2010s.
I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle. Very few people I know get paid enough to buy a starter home within 2 or 3 hours of where they work. I get paid more than my non tech peers yet still functionally have less spending power than a 25 year old from 30 years ago, despite b…
US middle class cleaved into two groups post pandemic: homeowners at 2% interest rates and everyone else.
Its the new middleclass have and have nots. You have it pretty good right now if you are a homeowner.
Re: Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
#9There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane. People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
> People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow
what are you basing this claim on? the fact that airbnb bookings are up for a rare celestial event?
here is where all of my ridiculous amounts of money is going towards: $6/gal gas in california, ever-increasing property taxes, ever-increasing insurance premiums, $399 "surgery" charges at an ENT simply because they looked up my nose for half a second, insanely expensive annual car registration charges, etc.
Re: Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
#10There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane. People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
> People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow what are you basing this claim on? the fact that airbnb bookings are up for a rare celestial event? here is where all of my ridiculous amounts of money is going towards: $6/gal gas in california, ever-increasing property taxes, ever-increasing insurance premiums, $399 "surgery" charges at an ENT…
Seriously. For all we know, these are relatively local people who had to settle for this cheap "vacation" instead of a more expensive/longer trip further away...
Relatively few people own stocks & home ownership has tapered off & isn't back to its pre pandemic highs... Maybe these things show the people that were doing well are still doing well, but we knew that already.