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You are comparing apples to oranges. Flipping burgers does not have same added value. As software devs you can leverage work on Firefox to get better salary. F
by ozim 10y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges.
Flipping burgers does not have same added value. As software devs you can leverage work on Firefox to get better salary. Flipping burgers can get you other flipping burgers job.
Software devs are usually in better position than those flipping burgers. So you can expect from people who are better off to start with, to contribute to society a bit more.
- jasonkester 10y agoCompare them to apples for me then. In what other industry do skilled professionals volunteer their time to work for other for profit companies in their free time? It's certainly common enough to volunteer professional skill for charity, but I can't think off the top of my head of an analog in another industry to the frequently-seen case in software of a gainfully employed, good developer giving his free labor to a commercial project like Chrome, MySql, etc.
- ozim 10y agoPortfolio work for photographers, illustrators. Loads of musicians working for peanuts or for promises of fame and also building portfolios. I think lawyers and doctors are abused by working long hours and are not compensated for it as they should. There it is called duty or civil service. But I do not have any hard example...