[tommymachine]

I actually just quit a factory job to start software dev. The conditions and pay were terrible at my factory gig so I started learning to code in my spare time. Probably few people on this forum would be connected with people who recently have worked in factories. But those jobs do exist, and man do they SUCK!

Especially when the people in software aren't developing products for you because they have never met you, i.e. don't believe you exist. There are good things and bad things about the homogeneity of SV culture, and outside perspectives, especially from the working class, don't often make it past a seed round.

[milesvp]

It's always interesting to hear another person talk about this. I've seen an article or two talking about how under served the working class is in regards to software.

Makes me wonder how much of it is economic, and how much of it is social.