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Demand only exceeds supply because too many people think they're going to make a quick buck with their new social recipe sharing startup. I strongly suspect the
by cageface 15y ago
Demand only exceeds supply because too many people think they're going to make a quick buck with their new social recipe sharing startup. I strongly suspect the supply of those kinds of services currently far outstrips real demand.
- geoffschmidt 15y agoThe demand from what you dismissively call "social recipe sharing startups" is an insignificant fraction of the demand for software engineers. Techcrunch is not a good proxy for the job market. How many people do you think are actually getting paid to write social recipe sharing software? Maybe 1000? There are ~1.5 million software engineers in the US alone. Even if you think that there are 10000, that's still less that 1% of all positions. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm