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Doctors? Morons. Lawyers? Morons. Scientists? Morons. PhDs? Morons. Only Faangers, agile scrum masters, and engineering managers are those who are paid opti
by mlac 5y ago
Doctors? Morons.
Lawyers? Morons.
Scientists? Morons.
PhDs? Morons.
Only Faangers, agile scrum masters, and engineering managers are those who are paid optimally, with flexible work arrangements.
Does the world need another web dev project manager on adderral who went through a boot camp and took a job that will be the first to be cut in a downturn? And then what? We’ve got a class of people who expect 6 figures who have no tangible skills?
I feel like this attitude is born from one extreme or another: a blue collar community with a lot of people who picked on a smart kid, who then went on to optimize for money. Or an extremely out of touch upper class family who imparted such a toxic view of people on you because it was easier to justify that they aren’t people who deserve anything (or they’ve earned a shit life) so that your family felt good about paying them minimum wage.
Either way, I’d argue this is an unhealthy attitude and a bad way to judge intelligence… Literally everyone not in FAANG or tech is a moron. That discounts 99.999% of the world’s population as idiots who haven’t figured it out. If you can’t learn anything from that group of people, I feel bad for you.
- CRConrad 5y agoIt's not only that everyone except webdevs are "morons", but also the aspect of all these "morons" not "deserving" to make a good living. The first is a technical determination; the second is a moral / ethical / value judgment. The first is hilariously erroneous, but never mind that; my point is that the second, all by itself, is totally unsupported, wildly biased, and... Well, all in all, feels pretty despicable. "Evil" is too grand a word; it's just asshole.
- mlac 5y agoIt’s occasionally nice to have a reminder that these people exist and operate this way, and that you may be interacting with one…