The 10% figure may be a bit of a red-herring as it applies to programmers. If you look at the data[1], people with college degrees are only at about ~4.5% unemp

The 10% figure may be a bit of a red-herring as it applies to programmers. If you look at the data[1], people with college degrees are only at about ~4.5% unemployment. Even if the intersection of the programmer set and college degree set isn't complete, it does hint that the nature of this recession has been affecting one class of worker a lot harder, namely, the unskilled & assembly-line workers. So while Ryan's point may have seemed a little unsympathetic, I think there's probably _some_ truth to it. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/economy/unemployment-lines.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/econo...