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by IndianAstronaut 3417 days ago
>Tech is basically the most overpaid career there is.

I think we get paid what a middle class wage should be. There was a huge downward spiral in wages due to rapid economic changes that cause a large fraction of the workforce to make very substandard wages.

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As opposed to medicine or the law in think not?
A ~$30K salary in 1980 would be equivalent to ~$90K today.

Seems like an apt comparison to me.