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by thaniri 2322 days ago
I just remind myself that this world has 7.5 billion people on it, and as a programmer I have a better income than the VAST majority of them.

So, there are billions of people who would love to out-compete me and take my job. I need to make sure I'm always ahead of the curve so that the legions of CS grads being pumped out of universities don't replace me.

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> I just remind myself that this world has 7.5 billion people on it, and as a programmer I have a better income than the VAST majority of them.

That's just not true.