Spoken like someone in the second 20% who believes that they are in the top 20%. "We engineers" are barely in that top 20% if at all. It's occupied by corpora

Spoken like someone in the second 20% who believes that they are in the top 20%. "We engineers" are barely in that top 20% if at all. It's occupied by corporate CEOs, Wall Street bankers, and lawyers: the people who either write or lobby/bribe the people who write the laws (at least in the plutonomy/plutocracy that we call the United States). "We engineers" don't control the information. We write the tools that do. The people with the money (see above) use the tools. Statistically speaking, I imagine that the majority of engineers who participate in a successful startup exit (how else is an engineer going to get into the top 10 or 20%?) are still less well off than a great deal of the above "fat cats". What separates "we engineers", at least those that read and participate in Hacker News, is that, perhaps, we have just a little more potential for social mobility than the rest. Bring on them downvotes!