Is this cope?

There was a video on Instagram of a bunch of guys near the subway in Midtown wearing a very similar outfit (dress shirt + slacks + dress shoes), and the comments were a little surprising. Most were pretty vitriolic and mocking ("NPC's", "they look like clowns", "suits 🤮", "probably IT guys", "capitalist slaves lmaooo"), comments like that. I mean sure, the guys wearing vests are a bit much, but oftentimes finance firm dress code dictates that we dress up like this. Is this just major cope??

I mean, are we not just going to work to afford to live here and maybe live a "comfortable" life if e get lucky and save/invest well?? Checking the commenters' profiles, many of them appear to be 250+ lbs, live in the midwest, and have never made even 50k/yr in their lives. Is it just general hate/dislike for Wall Street types? Do they think all of us caused the 2008 housing crisis? 

Also, a bit unrelated but I saw a youtube video recently that was asking New Yorkers how much they think software engineers make on average and most were saying 60-90k. Is this true? Do most people think we are the IT guys with a thick accent that can fix your computer, and make 20/hr? If true, I will glady remove my job from my dating profiles. It's clear to me that people still think doctor = rich + good person, banker = rich + bad person, and engineer = poor + bad person.

Interested to hear your thoughts.

 

Tech related jobs will always be viewed as nerdy, no matter how much they pay. If you work as a software engineer at a HF just say you work at a HF and skip the details

 

How so? I'm not the one making petty comments on how other people dress just to go to work? I'm honestly only referencing the amount of money we make because a lot of the comments were saying things like "these guys dress up like that and probably work in IT making 40k a year", so it sounds like they are the ones coping here. Also, it could absolutely be due to jealousy when many of these artsy/liberal type of people who can barely afford their NYC rent want to constantly make fun of and criticize Wall Street guys for just showing up to work.

 

Because you think that people should be envious of you for how much money you make and then go on to criticize them for the way they look too (Saying they’re overweight or liberal or that they make little money). They are criticizing people for changing their whole appearance in order to fit a job because they base their whole personality on their worth (as u clearly do since u seem to always bring it back to how much money they make so they “must” be jealous right?). If you can’t see that what they’re criticizing is exactly what you’re showing (people with no personality outside of what they do for work), then you might need to look in the mirror

 

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