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>It's hard to imagine what people outside of our field associate with "computer science". Money. That's what normal people associate with computer science. The
by tonyedgecombe 3y ago
>It's hard to imagine what people outside of our field associate with "computer science".
Money. That's what normal people associate with computer science. They don't understand what it is but they are well aware of the pay scales.
>Software development isn't high status field.
It wasn't before the money arrived. It is now.
- kazinator 3y agoMoney is connected to status but status isn't simply a linear function of money. These people potentially make decent money: - self-employed bathroom tiler - drug kingpin - pornographer
- maximus-decimus 3y agoyeah... no. Just look at Musk, Zukerberg and Bezos. They're worth over 100 billion and are the rockstars of the industry (probably the most well known people known in industry by normies) and they have zero social status. Normies don't respect techies no matter how much they make. I would argue techie don't even respect techies.
- arp242 3y agoWhat does "social status" even mean in this context? And the reason people like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are unpopular is because of their activities, comments, and things like that. That is: specific concrete things, not general "because they're a techie" kind of stuff.
- 9659 3y agoZuck collects private information and uses it to sell advertising. Elon runs a car company. What do they have to do with CS?
- maximus-decimus 3y agoMusk made his money from paypal, now owns twitter and own Tesla which is known for their software. Zuck... I mean you're kidding right? Facebook literally wrote their own c++ strings that's optimized for their specific use case, made their own php interpreter, have open source c++ libraries, etc. Also I just don't think normies differentiate between tech in general and computer science.
- anon291 3y ago[flagged]