> I was refuting an absolute. I stand corrected, thank you. I had to re-read both your comments carefully to understand them from that perspective. Though yo

> I was refuting an absolute. I stand corrected, thank you. I had to re-read both your comments carefully to understand them from that perspective. Though you didn't intend to generalise, your refutation can be (and clearly was) parsed as an assertion about a whole category of people not having the high relative risk, rather than a singular counteraxample to say not everyone in the category has that risk. Your followup comment could also be parsed that way, unfortunately. I think what motivated Bud's reply, and then mine because your followed appeared to entrench the position, is that it's common around here for people to talk as though virtually all software professionals are paid well and can easily slide into great new jobs as and when they want to, when really there's a huge "underclass" of software professionals who feel shut out of that nice world.