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No mention of price-pressure from outsourcing?

• potatolicious 14y ago
  That wouldn't really make sense. The hypothetical engineer of questionable skill is just as susceptible to outsourcing pressures as you are. If said engineer is able to compensate for that outsourcing pressure and you cannot, it is better explained by the points made in the article - negotiation savvy, domain knowledge, externalities like goodwill, etc.
  • jiggy2011 14y ago
    Yes, that's true. I skipped the opening paragraph and interpreted it as "why don't programmers as a whole get paid more".