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This is the cost of getting used to outrageously high salaries as compared to other engineering fields. Market forces allowed you to inflate your income beyond

This is the cost of getting used to outrageously high salaries as compared to other engineering fields. Market forces allowed you to inflate your income beyond reason, now the same forces are taking it away. Turns out decoupling your pay from value delivered wasn't such a good idea after all.

grafmax 1y ago
The fact that companies pay these prices shows the money is there. The money is there because of the value these workers create.
- dartharva 1y ago
  .. and now the money won't be there because the value has fallen in the era of AI code generators.
  - grafmax 1y ago
    If the businesses are profiting the money is there. Organizing gives workers leverage to gain a larger portion of the profits they are generating for their employers.