[geocar]

> I've often wondered why 'the market' doesn't understand that if garbage men disappeared, my city would look like a hellscape in a week

Maybe it's because "the market" believes you would be a garbage man if there weren't enough garbage men, because the price of garbage men would exceed what you were willing to pay for it.

That one doesn't trouble me as much as this one:

> Or why my cousin whose team keeps an entire county electrified, makes shit pay compared to me.

Now is it so much easier to hire people to electrify a country than to hire nerds to make cool shit?

Maybe so... Some of these big tech companies have massive headcounts and rarely (if ever) make anything cool after the first thing that made them rich. How big is your cousins' team and how many electricians are there in your country?

But one day, everyone will want to be a programmer... what will happen then?

[kenjackson]

Having spent some time working for the city there are very few difficult jobs at a technical level. It’s almost the definition of the job existing as the city level. Everything that is hard is outsourced and paid accordingly.