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An accountant wants better, more reliable, and cheaper software. They're not intrinsically motivated to subsidize native-born software developers.
by tptacek 6mo ago
An accountant wants better, more reliable, and cheaper software. They're not intrinsically motivated to subsidize native-born software developers.
- bluecheese452 5mo agoNo they don’t. They want to work 40 hours a week, go on vacation twice a year, drive a couple of cars, have their wife stay home and raise the kids. All things possible 70 years ago but no longer possible.
- tptacek 5mo agoAccountants and software developers do not in fact share a fate. I know it doesn't feel that way when you're commenting on HN, but there are whole lucrative professions that do not care at all what happens in ours.
- bluecheese452 5mo agoThe same decent at math, moderately ambitious people do well at both. Not 100% overlap but pretty large. If one side collapses the other side will get flooded.