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Comments like this perpetuate the idea that it's somehow immoral to want to earn money. We spent all this time and energy learning a commercially valuable skil
by svmegatron 14y ago
Comments like this perpetuate the idea that it's somehow immoral to want to earn money. We spent all this time and energy learning a commercially valuable skill, which is going to make a pile of money for someone else. It would be foolish to undervalue that skill at the endpoint of the developer.
- spaghetti 14y agoIt's good to distinguish between people who want to make a decent amount of money in order to live comfortably from those that want to make as much as possible in order to compete with their peers and perhaps make up for some self-esteem or other issues. I think OP was referring to the latter while it sounds like you're referring to the former.
- boucher 14y agoSeems pretty silly to think that anyone who wants to make more than enough money to live comfortably wants to do so only to compete with their peers or make up for self-esteem issues.
- koide 14y agoThere are lots of alternatives to the cases you present. In general, wanting to make as much money as you can get is not, per se, evil or immoral.