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Is that a bad thing? sw-developers are grossly overpaid to the point it's damaging
by yellowfish 5y ago
Is that a bad thing? sw-developers are grossly overpaid to the point it's damaging
- Sholmesy 5y agoGrossly overpaid for effort/comparison to other wages/industries. Adequately paid for value captured (hence why companies are willing to pay for them at this rate). Not a moral statement, but this gives more tools to those in power.
- xeromal 5y agoI tend to think like you. Somehow we convinced businesses that a mostly-blue collar job gets paid white collar salary but I've been told that SW-engineers aren't overpaid. Most people are just very underpaid. What are your thoughts on that? I can lean that way just because I have a genius mechanical engineer friend who only makes 60k in his 30s.
- yellowfish 5y agoI think it's easier to bring people down to the same level rather then bringing them up to it
- booleandilemma 5y agoDo you think project managers are overpaid too?
- nyghtly 5y agoIf the reduction of developer wages led to the increase of wages for other workers, sure. But of course that won't happen. The reduction of wages for any class of worker will simply lead to further consolidation of wealth.
- grumple 5y agoWe each produce 1MM+ in actual revenue per year but paying us 100k+ is too much?