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I disagree, there was a time when the finance community similarly valued themselves with the broader market until some people realized the numeric dollar value
by cloudjacker 10y ago
I disagree, there was a time when the finance community similarly valued themselves with the broader market until some people realized the numeric dollar value they could create. And the rest is history. Its time for software engineers to collectively realize their expanding relevance to value creation in actual numeric value.
- eru 10y agoWhy collectively? Did the finance people need anything collective?
- cloudjacker 10y agoNot sure how to answer that It's routine to get bonuses larger than your annual salary in finance, specially in investment banking roles, this is not routine in software engineering
- cloudjacker 10y agobut many forms of greater liquidity could be possible for potential value producing software engineering roles
- eru 10y agoOnly the total compensation is important for me. If anything, I'd rather get a stable one than a variable one. (Variable is only better, if the expected value is higher.) In any case, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212180 you said something like - finance people used to get normal amounts of money, now they get more - hence, software people need to do something as a collective. I don't see how the first implies the second. Especially since the finance people didn't do anything as a collective, did they?