Tldr we are paid well because there is a lot of demand. Thanks to the disaster that was 2000-era outsourcing, there was the mistaken belief that supply is funda

Tldr we are paid well because there is a lot of demand. Thanks to the disaster that was 2000-era outsourcing, there was the mistaken belief that supply is fundamentally limited to local offices. The pandemic has revealed that this is not true, so effective supply has exploded. I expect that the glory days of making hundreds of thousands of USD per year as a bit-laying chicken in an enterprise software farm are likely over. This is good for "remote" workers, superb for the capital class and horrible for us. It feels to me like we are the factory workers of the 1960s and are about to go through a similar explosion. I feel bad for the kids studying CS and information systems now and dreaming of.. basically my job today.