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But “not as well paid as it used to be” is relative to other wage earner, not to cost of living. Two uneducated polish factory workers today won’t be able to bu

• amonith 2y ago
  Idk, maybe it's not the exact book definition but I always thought about how well I'm paid in terms of the purchasing power, not the arbitrary value, and especially not by comparison with others (strictly speaking, because costs of living are kind of that, isn't it?). The software jobs slowly go into the direction of not being worth the effort (I don't really believe that we will reach that point but that's the current direction). > Two uneducated polish factory workers today won’t be able to buy your parents’ house either. Of course - because from my point of view factory jobs are currently paid terrible. They used to be paid better (worth the effort due to being able to buy more).
• kjs3 2y ago
  Did you hear that, bruh, you should be totes cool with not being able to afford what your parents could because if they were where you are they wouldn't be able to afford shit either. You just need to understand economics is all. That makes it all ok.
  • ido 2y ago
    I'm not saying we should be fine with it, just trying to understand what "doesn't even pay that well anymore" mean practically. E.g. if other careers have gotten better compensated while programming has gotten worse, it would have meant they'd be incentivized to change careers. What I see locally is that cost of living has gone up but no other jobs (aside maybe real estate?) have improved compensation relatively to programming in that time.