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> I think a lot of people on here have not been through a real recession. You can't be serious. > During a recession, it is either social assistance or one t

> I think a lot of people on here have not been through a real recession. You can't be serious. > During a recession, it is either social assistance or one takes the job that is available. It's only this way because we allow it to be. Huge productivity gains over the last decades have been captured by the .1%. There's nothing ambiguous or mysterious about it.

mdorazio 3y ago
> You can't be serious. I have to agree with the parent post here. What do you think the median age of HN commenters is? I'd say it's probably mid-late 20s, in which case most people graduated after the great recession was largely over and only experienced the COVID blip that wasn't a cyclical recession in the normal sense and mostly helped tech workers instead of harming them.
- intended 3y ago
  The median age here would be 40s.
  - pc86 3y ago
    Based on what?
    - intended 3y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734 Based on that. And this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 Which has more links to older surveys. Thus 40.
  - ted_dunning 3y ago
    Same point applies. Somebody who is 40 has seen the last bit of one recession that didn't hit tech as hard as the dot com crash (or as hard as 1991 or 1980).
commonlisp94 3y ago
> You can't be serious. Ok, im serious. It's silly to quote someone when you don't have a rebuttal. 2008 was 15 years ago, and didn't hit tech as hard as other industries. The last serious one was early 2000s. A significant number of people "in it for the money" or with non-traditional credentials simply had to leave the field.
mywittyname 3y ago
The GFC didn't hit tech too hard. The places I worked pretended "times are tough" to justify not handing out any raises, but the place next door was always happy to pay more. I certainly was not feeling the same recession as my friends in other industries were. Anyone that worked through the dot-com bust is late-forties, at minimum. But they'd have to be mid-50s or older to really feel the effects and know what changed. And people in their mid-50s+ are a strong minority in tech. If the median tech worker is 32, they would have graduated college after the GFC was over (2014ish).

mdorazio 3y ago

> You can't be serious. I have to agree with the parent post here. What do you think the median age of HN commenters is? I'd say it's probably mid-late 20s, in which case most people graduated after the great recession was largely over and only experienced the COVID blip that wasn't a cyclical recession in the normal sense and mostly helped tech workers instead of harming them.

intended 3y ago
The median age here would be 40s.
- pc86 3y ago
  Based on what?
  - intended 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734 Based on that. And this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 Which has more links to older surveys. Thus 40.
- ted_dunning 3y ago
  Same point applies. Somebody who is 40 has seen the last bit of one recession that didn't hit tech as hard as the dot com crash (or as hard as 1991 or 1980).

commonlisp94 3y ago

> You can't be serious. Ok, im serious. It's silly to quote someone when you don't have a rebuttal. 2008 was 15 years ago, and didn't hit tech as hard as other industries. The last serious one was early 2000s. A significant number of people "in it for the money" or with non-traditional credentials simply had to leave the field.

mywittyname 3y ago

The GFC didn't hit tech too hard. The places I worked pretended "times are tough" to justify not handing out any raises, but the place next door was always happy to pay more. I certainly was not feeling the same recession as my friends in other industries were. Anyone that worked through the dot-com bust is late-forties, at minimum. But they'd have to be mid-50s or older to really feel the effects and know what changed. And people in their mid-50s+ are a strong minority in tech. If the median tech worker is 32, they would have graduated college after the GFC was over (2014ish).