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 tow

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