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> pay is half or less than what equivalent level software jobs pay, with worse working conditions You can say this part about basically any job and it would be
by smnrchrds 4y ago
> pay is half or less than what equivalent level software jobs pay, with worse working conditions
You can say this part about basically any job and it would be true. Tech salaries and work conditions are ridiculously good, compared to any almost other job in the US and any other country than the US. Even other STEM jobs (e.g. civil or mechanical engineering) tend to have less than half the pay and much worse benefits and work conditions compared to software.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThe coming cohort of university students is showing a huge influx of CS majors. I wonder how long the high pay lasts after the flood.
- dougabug 4y agoIt’s not a zero sum game. There isn’t some fixed, finite demand for software. There’s no upper bound on how much value can be created by skilled, imaginative software engineers, and a programmer can be productive with a relatively inexpensive set of tools (i.e., a computer and Internet access, which pretty much everybody has today). If software is eating the world, eventually almost all jobs will in some aspects be software jobs, analogous to how 98% of the population used to be engaged in some aspect of agricultural production. We should focus on providing people with the productivity amplifying tools which might sustain a high quality standard of living.