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by clentaminator 3492 days ago
> Any job in engineering beats that

In what sense? Usefulness to society? Comfort? Pay? I'd argue that the janitors and garbagemen are doing much more of a public good than the proportion of software "engineering" that goes into a social media application, despite any technical smartness behind it.

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Comfort and salary. I should have been clearer.