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Let me shed a tear for these massively overpaid engineers who will now have to make only measly 2-3x of the average wage
by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Let me shed a tear for these massively overpaid engineers who will now have to make only measly 2-3x of the average wage
- oblio 4y agoThey're still workers, don't be silly.
- gonzo41 4y agoThey'll have lots of options, and importantly, if they do cycle back into startup land, they may just pick a winner.
- nemo44x 4y agoThe next generation of startups that will become giants are being started now. Right now is a great time to start something new.
- nfRfqX5n 4y agoAnd yet the company still makes 2-3x their salary in profit
- whatwherewhy 4y agoHmm, so what?
- strikelaserclaw 4y agocost of living in those areas means these guys live at best above middle class unless you want engineers to essentially never have children and live in an apartment all their life, then even 200-300k in these areas isn't much.
- schnitzelstoat 4y ago> engineers to essentially never have children and live in an apartment all their life Welcome to most of Europe.
- paganel 4y agoAs an engineer living in Europe and inside an apartment I can confirm. Also wanted to add that when we want to feel less trapped we can very easily escape to many other nice places that surround us in the near vicinity, I usually go for bookstores and coffee-shops (from where I’m writing this comment), other people also choose parks, bike-rides, stuff like that. We manage.
- oblio 4y agoI'm not going to address the other aspects in your comment but: 1. Apartments can be perfectly fine for a happy life, everywhere across the world. 2. Conception and child upbringing do not mandate having a house.
- whatwherewhy 4y agoThey could simply move. It's what normal people had to do because these overpaid engineers outpriced them.
- scarface74 4y agoThis is not true in any city in the US by any statistically valid definition of “middle class”.