Understand that few people, at least in Western culture, attain wealth or social status from whatever their passion(s) may be.
If your passion(s) is associated with a relatively low-paying career, consider the possibility of keep your passion(s) as a hobby, and pursue a career that pays well and allows you time for your hobby/passion outside of work.
Understand the tremendous power of long-term, compound interest. Saving money does not seem important at 18, but doing it now makes life a hell of a lot easier down the road.
Also, establish a credit history with something like a secured credit card.
I agree with all the comments here and would like to add that this really isn't anything new. Back in the 2000s with the onset of Livejournal/AIM/Tumblr/Memes 1.0, we saw a similar kind of "internet language" develop as a form of codespeak or shibboleth communication for the in-crowd. Granted, in this case the motivation to create this language is for a different purpose: to get around algorithmic censorship.
For whatever it's worth, even with the salary cut remote employees are facing, the paybands for FAANG employees in (relatively) affordable cities are still top-of-market.
For example, remote GOOG employees in Atlanta take a 10-20% salary cut compared to the Bay Area salaries. But the net takehome is still higher (on average) than the takehome for the in-office Bay Area engineers. And the overall compensation is better than >80% of existing Atlanta metro SWE compensation.
That's part of the reason why there has been such a huge influx of people to metros like Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, etc.
I don't know how much flak I will get for making a comment like this, but feel it's important to point out the data is obviously biased for (or at least the article doesn't specifically call out):
1. Western society's influence
2. Cultural background influence
3. Sex assigned at birth influence
ITT: People using their subjective remote-work opinions in defending Google's desire to increase their profits by sacrificing their own employees' well-being.
At the risk of this discussion devolving into a flamewar, I would just encourage you to do your own research about this situation.
Regardless of all other arguments about location-based pay, Google et al have been paying their temporarily-remote employees 100% of their salary up until now.
These companies would need to spend lots of resources to legally navigate pay cuts to already-agreed-upon contracts.
And they would also have to weigh the risk of those employees leaving for better pay elsewhere.
Understand that few people, at least in Western culture, attain wealth or social status from whatever their passion(s) may be.
If your passion(s) is associated with a relatively low-paying career, consider the possibility of keep your passion(s) as a hobby, and pursue a career that pays well and allows you time for your hobby/passion outside of work.
Understand the tremendous power of long-term, compound interest. Saving money does not seem important at 18, but doing it now makes life a hell of a lot easier down the road.
Also, establish a credit history with something like a secured credit card.