Date: June 30th, 2026 2:01 AM Author: stubborn razzle-dazzle ticket booth corn cake
Katrine Razniak, 27, arrived in San Francisco in 2022 as a recruiter at LinkedIn, earning $70,000 a year. Her annual salary soared to $180,000 when she joined the software company Rippling to lead a team of account managers. Her partner, Adam Woodbury, 39, moved to the city in 2021 and earns $185,000 as a software engineer.
These days, even those six-figure salaries are no longer enough in San Francisco.
When Ms. Razniak and Mr. Woodbury tried to find a one-bedroom apartment for under $5,000 a month this spring, they struck out. They looked at around 30 properties over three months, but all were too expensive and too in demand. At one listing for $5,200 a month, they found 30 people had added their names to a sign-up sheet within an hour of the open house.
They ended the search. But even if they had found a place, a question lingered: whether a city where groceries and dinner with friends had become sources of financial concern was somewhere they could build a future.
“I don’t feel completely hopeless, but I don’t think I can stay in S.F.,” Ms. Razniak said. Mr. Woodbury added, “At some point, there was a slow transition where we both realized it just didn’t make any sense.”
Date: June 30th, 2026 2:17 AM Author: vermilion lay
the big thing against populism is that you have all of these severely retarded people who don't have the intellect, or, more charitably, the patience, to understand the training material on the matter of Economy trying to wage war against the professional class from pure resent rather than more specific complaints and where they do take and use your specific complaints they don't understand or "experience" the essential basis of them so they're not applied very effectively
this was where some of the satirical humor of "JDPON Don" or Trump as a Maoist came from; lawyers and whoever else declaring account managers or software engineers or commercial artists "do nothing employees" is pretty sameish to the CCP commissars in the Great Leap Backwards destroying the budding Chinese industrial economy by implementing retarded policies set by dogmatic morons in Beijing who had no idea what the situation on the ground was like in the provinces and killing and starving millions in the process
of course this entire thing could've been sidestepped by having Trump in the first term in charge but no, certain alien elements wouldn't be able to try to scam free meals that way then. feels like this term arrangement was set up by bad faith Scammers deliberately trying to destroy the harmony of the country for some reason
Date: June 30th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: hyperventilating shaky immigrant
But just think about all of the work that she created for the HR team, the employment lawyers, and the comms specialists that will help them meet their OKRs here at the end of Q2. Kind of selfless of her if you think about it