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if you have low cost of living, maybe

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  If your cost of living isn't much lower than a programmer salary, the landlords (and shareholders?) are thanking you for financing them. Or maybe I'm just out of date — that was exactly how it worked back in the XX, anyway.
  • advael 3y ago
    There's a degree to which (senior enough) programmers still have more leverage than some workers, but the leverage of landlords has been ratcheting steadily toward stronger and has moved considerably in the last few years, and that's on top of a wave of layoffs that's made it considerably harder for many to jump ship from a suboptimal situation, which is the only form of leverage programmers really had over shareholders in the first place, because as a population we've consistently been duped out of building up other kinds of power even as the hiring side of the equation has gradually consolidated more