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If you need someone with programming skills and are willing to pay them, and someone with those skills will work for that amount, that's the price of a programm
by ketralnis 11y ago
If you need someone with programming skills and are willing to pay them, and someone with those skills will work for that amount, that's the price of a programmer. Asserting that the skill is worthless doesn't make sense as long as people will pay for it.
Even if you just consider it a form of literacy, scribes absolutely were paid to do their work before literacy was as widespread
- rgbrgb 11y agoPeople don't pay for "programmers" they pay for people to make products.
- mruniverse 11y agoPeople don't pay for people to make products, they pay for people to make them money. People don't pay for people to them to make money, they pay for people to build wealth. People don't... wait I have to throw up. Will be back.
- dang 11y agoYou have a decent point here, but please don't optimize for snark on HN.
- mruniverse 11y agoBut pompous comments are ok?
- dang 11y agoThey're definitely not great, but the class of all comments that strike someone as pompous is so large that standardizing on snark in replies would sink us.
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- gizi 11y agoThe existing platforms on the internet are worth trillions already. The ones that truly work, are built, operated, and owned by programmers. The other ones ultimately only crash and burn. What do we need non-programmers for, in that context? We may pay them to do something menial, but besides that, what else would we need them for?
- fsloth 11y agoI for one welcome our new programmer overlords. Kneel before the quadrocopter swarm of doom! But really. Menial? Like teachers, doctors and kindergarten workers? Societys true value is in something else than the value in the bank account.