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catigula on May 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI...

That really only happened in HCOL areas.

bravesoul2 on May 30, 2025 | [–]

HCOL wasn't the driver though. It is abundance of investment and desire to hire. If the titans could collude to pay engineer half as much, they would. They tried.

xp84 on May 30, 2025 | [–]

Sure, but there was a massive concentration of such people in those areas.

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