but calling yourself a refugee while you’re likely getting paid $60,000 remote coding job from the country you escaped from might make you seem out of touch

Yeah but if you’re working a low-paying teaching position in the US and China or Vietnam offers you something better, I have no problem calling yourself a refugee. You may not be the same as some diamond mine worker from Africa, but you’re still escaping a shitty situation. Either way, I get what HexbearGPT was trying to say. It fucking sucks in the west and if that means “fleeing” it then call yourself whatever you want.