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Couldn't you build something beautiful and useful and add to the world's treasures? That's not the mark of a low status person.
by telesilla 6y ago
Couldn't you build something beautiful and useful and add to the world's treasures? That's not the mark of a low status person.
- spacechild1 6y agoHow many software developers actually get a chance to “add to the world's treasures“? Building yet another CRUD web app doesn't meet the definition in my book. I'm not saying it's not possible, but you have to be rather lucky.
- bonoboTP 6y agoHow many normal people get a chance to work at a top law firm in a fancy position just because they graduated from some law school? Better jobs are competed for strongly. Good stuff is never free and never available by default.
- b3kart 6y agoYep, this whole thread is one big apples-to-oranges comparison. An average software engineer is lower status than a lawyer at a top law-firm with fierce competition for every position. Well, duh. Why don't we compare a senior FAANG engineer/manager to an average legal clerk or such then.
- onecommentman 6y agoThe really good stuff is always free. If you take a more expansive interpretation of “stuff”. The pretty good stuff is often in short supply.
- bonoboTP 6y agoSounds deep, you probably mean things like love and faith and kindness. But it's misleading. Friendships and relationships aren't "free" in terms of effort and achievement. They take the same kind of work/luck/genetics/network combination as getting an interesting and fulfilling job does. Sure, even the hobo on the street can have faith in Jesus and mental peace for free if you mean that sort of thing, but most things people want are scarce or at least aren't available by default, without either effort or connections.
- redisman 6y agoHow would working at a top law firm do anything “beautiful” or meaningful in the world anyway? You’ll basically be some oligarchs lackey