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"Developer wages would crash through the floor and all the way down to the centre of the Earth if ad blockers really took off without users also accepting micro
by a4isms 4y ago
"Developer wages would crash through the floor and all the way down to the centre of the Earth if ad blockers really took off without users also accepting micropayments or subscriptions for web services at the same time. Maybe we should be a little bit glad that the main thing keeping massive amounts of money in tech is accepted by users."
Somewhere, somebody is saying, "Maybe we shouldn't sell drugs to children?" And somebody else is saying, "Won't somebody think of the wages for chemists?"
- mbostleman 4y agoSame argument for simplifying the tax code or even completely abolishing the IRS in favor of collection infrastructures already in place (like sales tax) - but what will happen to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry?
- ghoward 4y agoI have a relative that works in the tax prep industry. She wouldn't mind losing her job if it meant that income taxes went away.
- mbostleman 4y agoGood for her!