Every 10 years or there has recently been a major economic event that impacts the 'programmer classes'. Welcome to the early 2020s one, hopefully it will be ove

Every 10 years or there has recently been a major economic event that impacts the 'programmer classes'. Welcome to the early 2020s one, hopefully it will be over soon. I remember in the dot com crash tons of people left microsoft, did a startup, then came back after it burned. Same in 2008. Now we have the pandemic leading to inflation, then the Ukraine war started, then this likely recession.