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The way society's going, we're heading towards nothing. Even in the tech industry, if you're not a coder, you're going to be dealing with a completely different
by Sanddancer 11y ago
The way society's going, we're heading towards nothing. Even in the tech industry, if you're not a coder, you're going to be dealing with a completely different sort of life. Support people, entry level IT people, etc are brought in as contractors, which means that the protections that you get as a programmer are things they don't have. As your company makes more and more money, they are stuck with a barely livable wage, because too many CEOs don't want to think about those jobs that "anyone" can do. This stratification is getting worse, and something really does need to change.
- tracker1 11y agoI feel that part of the problem is the ever-expanding protections provided to large incumbents via IP law and other overly-restrictive legal protections. It flies in the face of being able to compete, or create new upstart competitors. I enjoy being skilled as a software developer, but it's still not relatively as good as it was in the mid-late 70's accounting for inflation. The problem is we have a lot of pro-business combined with protectionism that inhibits the pro-competition that's meant to offset monopolistic tracks.
- vinceguidry 11y ago> Even in the tech industry, if you're not a coder, you're going to be dealing with a completely different sort of life. My company's IT personnel are all full-time employees, with decent salaries and medical coverage. I'm actually underpaid relative to my peers, but I've managed to negotiate certain perks that are pretty important to me. But social inequality has always existed, you have to compare rungs on the ladder to what those rungs looked like 10-20 years ago. I'd argue that if you look at it that way, life is only getting better and better for people.