[goatinaboat]

This can't go on, it seems only natural that pay is going to keep going up, especially when people realize how hard and complicated this stuff is

Well your lawyer isn’t running around telling everyone that what he does is easy and anyone can do it, he isn’t slagging off every other lawyer and telling you the contract needs to be totally rewritten in a very slightly different style every 6 months, he isn’t crowing about a lawyer shortage and calling for open borders to get foreign lawyers to make up the numbers...

Plumbers and electricians don’t do this either. In fact no one else is so eager to devalue their own work.

The general disempowerment of tech workers relative to lawyers, accountants, doctors, MBA’s and so on is 100% of tech’s own making.

[listenallyall]

...in addition, only techies proudly acknowledge giving away their best, most innovative and most valuable work product, completely for free.

[goatinaboat]

When someone says “I love programming so much I’d even do it for free” their manager has a good laugh, out on the golf course with their MBA buddies

[non-entity]

Tbf you also cant go straight from HS->Lawyer even if you tried