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senseandsensibility

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1. Interesting

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:33 PM

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A little hard for me who spent my career in one of the "easily exploitable" caring professions to identify with. However, I have spent my entire adult life in Silicon Valley, most of it right in the heart of SV. So I've heard similar stories. What I didn't like was right before the recession of 2007 our techie friends were kind of good naturedly making fun of my hubby and me for "working for peanuts". Then they got laid off and we didn't kid them back.

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Interesting senseandsensibility Sunday #1

I completely understand. The disparities were bad in the 80s but became ridiculous in this century. erronis Sunday #3

Yeah, you have to have lived it to understand senseandsensibility Sunday #4

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