> it would just mean that software developers and lawyers would come to be paid like baristas. In quite a few places, the former are basically paid like barist

> it would just mean that software developers and lawyers would come to be paid like baristas. In quite a few places, the former are basically paid like baristas and office clerks. That certainly seems to be the case at the web development end (and I guess more mainstream side in general) in a lot of places in Europe.