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random2908 · 2 years ago

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Why do people think Bro is rich? It says he makes “thousands a month.” In other words, enough to rent a one-bedroom apartment in a big city (Bro sleeps in the living room), buy more puppets, fund Dave’s hobbies, and sometimes have enough left over for food. The Striders are lower middle class at best. (That said, I agree that Bro probably does pay taxes because he thinks it’s fun in some warped, ironic way.)

Do you think Dave Strider like, legally existed? Did he have a social security number? Did noted unhinged Texan Bro Strider ever actually make the choice of "I should tell the federal government about my end-times warrior child"? Because now that I'm thinking about it I would not bet money on it.

#a dozen years later and this is still a pet peeve #'thousands a month' is what I made as a grad student or a postdoc #'thousands a month' by normal English implicature means at least $2k and less than $10k (probably less than $9k even)#(because $9k would more likely be 'nearly ten thousand a month')#(like $9k is enough that your reference point switches by an order of magnitude)#granted if it's $8k/month for a two-person household that's solidly middle class verging almost into upper-middle #but they don't live like Bro's making $8k/month they live like he's making $3-4k/month #I WILL die on this hill

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