When people said Bengalureans are never satisfied with anything, a software engineer decided to take this reputation to the next level. In a recent social media post, he unveiled his ‘unique’ grievance: he is upset over his parents earning more than him and the internet, just like us, found it quite perplexing. Shouldn’t parents earning more be a point of pride rather than a source of distress? This perplexing issue surfaced on the micro-blogging site ‘X,’ leaving people scratching their heads.
In a screenshot shared by Grapevine app CEO Saumil Tripathi, a user on his social marketing platform openly admitted to feeling like a failure because his salary was significantly lower than that of his parents. As an entry-level Software Development Engineer (SDE1) at what he described as an “okay-ish” company, he couldn’t help but wonder about the younger generation who were out-earning their folks and revolutionizing their lives. In his view, parents must be beaming with pride seeing their children out-earn them.
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However, for him, the numbers were disheartening. “As for me, my salary is barely 15 LPA while my parents earn 8-10x more than me,” he bemoaned. “There’s basically NOTHING I can spend on them that they don’t already have a better version of. Financially I can’t help them and uplift their lives at all.” He added that while he’s grateful for their financial stability, he couldn’t shake off the disappointment of not matching up to his parents’ income.
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Soon, people started reacting to Tripathi’s post on ‘X,’ and the responses were a mix of amusement and confusion.
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One comment read, “It’s like the person is trying to invent a problem where there’s no problem….”
“People dig for problems even if they have the perfect life which 99% of the population dreams about just to rant about it somewhere,” mused another user. “Sometimes modern problems don’t actually require a solution,” quipped a third.
And there you have it—an utterly bizarre problem that absolutely no one saw coming!
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