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by sneak 1639 days ago
> The author was lucky to earn a huge amount of money.

He's not earning "huge" amounts of money for jobs in that field. (Additionally, it's a field that most intelligent people can enter with 1-3 years of study.)

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1447997574556880902
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ac29 1639 days ago
The author is solidly in the top 1% of income for the US. The implication that 99% of working Americans are stupid or lazy is frankly insulting.
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ZephyrBlu 1639 days ago
What proportion of SWEs make the kind of money that Dan Luu and the author are talking about?
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