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>We programmers, we 1%ers, are in the top percentile of capitalism high scores in the entire world - that’s the literal definition - but we keep fighting with e
by closeparen 1y ago
>We programmers, we 1%ers, are in the top percentile of capitalism high scores in the entire world - that’s the literal definition - but we keep fighting with each other to get closer to top place. Why?
>Because we forgot there’s anything else. Because someone convinced us that the score even matters.
Because we want homes near the offices we're required to work from in order to maintain those capitalism high scores, and those homes are a fundamentally zero sum resource.
- akomtu 1y agoThose in the top 1% have at least $50M in assets.
- closeparen 1y agoOne big thing going on here is programmers are young and TC has taken off relatively recently. Programmers are in the 1% by income much more often than by wealth.
- Supermancho 1y agoArbitrary scale: https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-income-puts-you-top-1-5-10/ https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom... > I should move from New York City back to Montreal and then stop worrying about it forever. ... My numbers aren’t that different from the average Canadian or (especially) American software developer nowadays. Yes, they are. I'm not in the 1% - even if I was, splitting between my dependents we're not in the 1% again. If we get sick, we have to worry about money. If 2 of us get really sick, we're broke. I feel like the blogpost is blowing smoke from the start.