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I don’t know what you do but to me working as a programmer, thinking all day and solving problems, is much harder than just driving around people.
by usaphp 8y ago
I don’t know what you do but to me working as a programmer, thinking all day and solving problems, is much harder than just driving around people.
- creato 8y agoProgramming is certainly harder than most jobs in the sense that fewer people are capable of doing it, which is the one that matters for economics. That doesn't mean other jobs are not harder in other ways that matter too.
- chii 8y ago> not harder in other ways that matter too. those ways don't matter to the company doing the paying of wages. The only "way" that matters is the scarcity of people willing to perform said job. This is what our society has currently come to, and no individual can make that change without making a personal sacrifice.
- creato 8y agoI acknowledged that: > which is the one that matters for economics
- russdpale 8y agoYeh but so is loading 1000 packages into 4 or 5 trucks. Or 2500 packages into an 18 wheeler.
- usaphp 8y agoYou can load packages into an 18 wheeler for 20 years and you wont really learn much. A new person can come in tomorrow and do the same job pretty much without any learning. When you work as an engineer you constantly have to learn and keep your knowledge up to date on top of that.
- jtms 8y agoHard, yes, but you should start a business paying people developer salaries to load and unload boxes and we will see how well that works out for you. Also that job is soon to be an anachronism - robots are perfectly suited to replace humans for this task.
- russdpale 8y agoI actually doubt they will replace the loader. Not until they having something as dexterous as a human hand. Some functions, such as belt splitting is already replacing humans but there are no plans to replace the loaders. It requires too much human intuition at the moment for the machines to handle.