> This industry is nothing like the factories. You seem to ignore both the trend shifts in factory jobs and software jobs. Factory workers once had exactly the

> This industry is nothing like the factories. You seem to ignore both the trend shifts in factory jobs and software jobs. Factory workers once had exactly the same status as you describe here: > 99% of these people will be able to take two weeks of free time and find another job for the same (or often better) pay Also, software engineers (at the big scale) are slowly but steadily loosing the glorious position in the workforce market they once had.