/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Bitter poorfag thread

>live in SF, angry poor person capital of America (pic related- this is a real flyer from the original tech boom)
>at BtSSB store with boyfriend, who just got out of work and is dressed in his office clothes
>buying way more shit than normal because it's my birthday and I also hadn't got anything new in months
>had already gotten AP dress, so have bag from that
>two girls there together, one is gushing over last of one of the dresses I planned on buying, while lamenting the fact she can't afford it
>give her like five minutes to obsess over it while I look at other things, then nicely ask her if she plans on buying it and if not I would like to
>she hands me the dress, visibly upset
>as I'm checking out, I hear her loudly whisper to her friend "I wish I was with a rich tech bro that buys me everything... Oh well, at least my boyfriend isn't ruining the city"
>tfw I'm the one who works for a soulless monster company while boyfriend's job centers around making sure impoverished old people have solid health care

My first SF meet, there were two girls going on about how awful tech workers are and how they're destroying the entire Bay Area until I mentioned that I was one and they quickly shut up. The other tech workers in my comm stress that they never hear shit other than the occasional newbie, but the girls having this conversation have been in the comm for years. My guess is there's a lot more resentment than they're aware of, but obviously no one is going to say anything to their face.

(ot fun fact- the guy who wrote this flyer ended up being arrested for getting ridiculously drunk after having too much wine on a first class flight home from Paris just two years after putting these all over SF)